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1、英语语调的意义（ThemeaningofEnglishintonation）ThemeaningofEnglishintonationSubtitle:Author:sarticlesource:sclicks:updatetime:2004-12-12Tone(intonation),namelyaccent,isawordinthetone(pitch)andtheseverityofthechangelevelofiambicpreparation.Theworldisnotalanguagespeakwithas
2、inglevoice,forexample,therearefivebasictypesofintonation:Englishintonation(),tone(),(a),the(V)toneandfallingtone(,).Inaword,inadditiontothewordmeaning(lexical,meaning),thereisalsothemeaningofintonation(intonation,meaning).Thewordmeaningisthemeaningofthewordsinthe
3、words,andtheintonationmeaningistheattitudeortoneexpressedbythespeaker.Awordmeaningplusaintonationmeaningisacompletemeaning.Thesamesentence,differentintonation,meaningwillbedifferent,sometimeseventhousandsofmiles.Pleaseseethefollowingexample:(2)A:Jean,can,you,brin
4、g,me,the,newspaper,?B:Sorry?()Jeanusetherisingof"Sorry",whichmeans"Ididn'thearyou.Couldyousaythatagain,please?"Let'slookatthenextsentence:(2)A:Jean,can,you,bring,me,the,newspaper,?B:Sorry.()Inthedialogue,2)Jeanshouldsay"Sorry",itsmeaningisapparentlyrefusedtohelpo
5、rincapableofaction.KennethL.Pike,afamousAmericanlinguist,thinks:Absoluteadjustmentonesyllableisnotimportant,butasyllablewiththeadditionofarelativeheightisveryimportant.TherearefourlevelsofEnglishthatcandistinguishmeaningsfromheights:1)high(extra),whichistwohigher
6、thanthenormaltone,isoftenusedwhenfeelingsareparticularlyexcitingorsurprising.2)highsounding(high),whichishigherthanthenormaltone,isgenerallyusedasakeyaccentinasentence.3)mid,thatis,thenormalheightofthespeaker'svoice.4)low-key(low),thatis,lowerthanthenormaltone,Th
7、egeneralisthelowestpointinthe.Shouldbeinaccordancewiththespeaker'sattitudetointonationpatterns,andnotinaccordancewiththesyntacticstructureto.Thereisnointonationoftheinterrogativesentenceortheintonationofthedeclarativesentence".Becauseinterrogativeanddeclarativese
8、ntencescanbeusedinvariousintonationpatterns.Therefore,forourEnglishlearnersinChina,itisimportanttounderstandsomeattitudeortoneexpressedbyacertaintypeofexpressi
