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David Brazil
1925-1995

 

David Brazil's principal publications were:

The Communicative Value of Intonation in English (1985/1997) University of Birmingham/Cambridge University Press

Pronunciation for Advanced Learners of English (1994) Cambridge University Press

A Grammar of Speech (1995) Oxford University Press

But he wrote many articles which you can find listed in the bibliography below.


(1969) Kinds of English: spoken, written, literary. Educational Review, 22/1, 78-92.

(1972) An investigation of the relationship between intonation and grammar in the reading aloud of citation forms. Unpublished masters dissertation. Birmingham: The University of Birmingham.

(1975) Discourse intonation. Discourse analysis monographs no. 1. Birmingham: The University of Birmingham, English Language Research.

(1976) The teacher's use of intonation. Educational Review, 28/3, 180-189.

(1978a) Discourse intonation. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Birmingham: The University of Birmingham.

(1978b) Discourse intonation II: Discourse analysis monographs no. 2. Birmingham: The University of Birmingham, English Language Research.

(1978c) Discourse intonation: supplement to the final report to SSRC for the period Ist September 1975 to 31st August 1978. Birmingham: The University of Birmingham, English Language Research.

(1981a) Discourse analysis as linguistics: A response to Hammersley. In P. French and M. Maclure (eds.) Adult-child conversation (59-72). London: Croom Helm.

(1981b) Intonation. In R. M. Coulthard and M. Montgomery (eds.) Studies in discourse analysis (39-50). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

(1981c) The place of intonation in a discourse model. In R. M. Coulthard and M. Montgomery (eds.) Studies in discourse analysis (146-157). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

(1982a) Impromptuness and intonation. In N. E. Enkvist (ed.) Impromptu speech: A symposium. Publications of the Research Institute of the Abo Akademi Foundation, 78, 277-289.

(1983a) Intonation and connectedness in discourse. In K. Ehlich and H. van Riemsdijk (eds.) Connectedness in sentence, discourse and text: Proceedings of the Tilburg conference held on 25 and 26 January 1982. Tilburg Studies in Language and Literature 4, (179-198). Le Tilburg: Tilburg University.

(1983b) Intonation and discourse: Some principles and procedures. Text, 3/1, 39-70.

(1984a) Tag questions. Ihla do Desterro, V/11, 28-44.

(1984b) The intonation of sentences read aloud. In D. Gibbon and H. Richter (eds.) Intonation, accent and rhythm: Studies in discourse phonology (46-66). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

(1985a) The communicative value of intonation in English. Discourse analysis monograph no. 8. Birmingham: The University of Birmingham, English Language Research.

(1985b) Phonology: Intonation in discourse. In T. A. van Dijk (ed.) Handbook of discourse analysis: Volume 2 Dimensions of discourse (57-75). London: Academic Press.

(1985c) Where is the edge of language? Semiotica, 56-3/4, 371-88.

(1986a) Discourse intonation. In J. Morley and A. Partington (eds.) Spoken discourse: Phonetics theory and practice. Laboratorio degli studi linguistics 1986/1 (35-45). Universita di Camerino.

(1986b) Investigating the intonation of language learners. In M. Cling and J. Humbley (eds.) Hommage a A.C. Gimson: 3eme Colloque d'Avril sur L'Anglais oral (121-39). Paris: Universite Paris-Nord.

(1986c) Intonation and the study of dialect. Annual Report of Dialectology (Hiroshima) 29, 263-278.

(1987a) Intonation and the grammar of speech. In R. Steele and T. Threadgold (eds.) Essays in honour of Michael Halliday (145-59). Amsterdam: Benjamins.

(1987b) Representing Pronunciation. In J. McH. Sinclair (ed.) Looking up: An account of the COBUILD project in lexical computing (160-166). London: Collins COBUILD.

(1990) 'Oh What is that Sound': An exercise in metrical analysis. In Linguistic Fiesta: Festschrift for Professor Hisao Kakehi's Sixtieth Birthday (67-82). Tokyo: Kuroshio.

(1991) Discourse intonation: The teacher's talk. The Journal of English Language Teaching (India), XXVI/V, 179-186.

(1992) Listening to people reading: In R. M. Coulthard (ed.) Advances in discourse analysis (209-241). London: Routledge.

(1992) Speaking English or talking to people. Focus on English (British High Commission Madras), 7/2~3, 16-23.

(1993) Telling tales. In J. McH. Sinclair, M. Hoey and G. Fox (eds.) Techniques of Description: Spoken and written discourse (154-169). London: Routledge.

(1994) Pronunciation for advanced learners of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Student's book, Teacher's book, tapes]

(1994) The nature of English conversation. Sophia Linguistica, 37,1-56.

(1995) A grammar of speech. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

(1997) The Communicative value of intonation in English. [2nd Edition]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Co-authored works

Coulthard, R. M. and Brazil D. (1979) Exchange structure: Discourse analysis monographs no. 5. Birmingham: The University of Birmingham, English Language Research.

Brazil, D., Coulthard, R. M. and Johns, C. (1980) Discourse intonation and language teaching. Harlow: Longman.

Coulthard, R. M., Brazil, D. and Johns, C. (1979) Reading intonation. In G. Graustein and A. Neubert (eds.) Trends in English text linguistics. Linguistische Studien Reihe A Arbeitsberichte 55, (29-42). Berlin: Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR Zentralinstitut for Sprachwissenschaft.

Sinclair, J. McH. and Brazil, D. (1982b) Teacher talk. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Festschrifts

Coulthard, R. M. (ed.) (1986) Talking about text: Studies presented to David Brazil on his retirement. Discourse analysis monographs no. 13. Birmingham: The University of Birmingham, English Language Research.

Coulthard, R. M. (ed.) (1987) Discussing discourse: Studies presented to David Brazil on his retirement. Discourse analysis monographs no. 14. Birmingham: The University of Birmingham, English Language Research.

 

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