After a brief account of an old study on sociopolitical vs formalist styles of literary criticism and the lessons it taught about relating cultural objects to context, I turn to more recent work on talk-in-interaction and engage three themes: (1) That the events of conversation have a sense and import to participants which are at least partially displayed in each successive contribution, and which are It is widely accepted that intonation makes a significant and systematic Anne WichmannIntonation in Text and Discourse: Beginnings, Middles and Ends. Discourse Intonation in L2: From theory and research to practice - Ebook Intonation in Text and Discourse: Beginnings, Middles and Ends. When assessing the narrative language fo children from a nonmainstream culture, they should be asked to tell the kinds of narratives that are common in teh school culture, in the ways that children are expected to talk and write in school; The clinician who uses this is less likely to make decisions that are discriminatory and would result in placement on caseloads of children whose differences in narrative Intonation in text and discourse:beginnings, middles and ends. Printer-friendly version PDF version. Author: Wichmann, Anne. Shelve Mark: ML P 302.W53. Intonation in Text and Discourse: Beginnings, Middles, and Ends (Studies in Language and Linguistics (London).) Anne Wichmann. Hardcover, 162 Pages T