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Scarica dispens inglese unisalento lecce e più Dispense in PDF di Ingegneria Civile solo su Docsity! Intonation Discourse Intonation and Listening.  1. Chunking - divides the text into manageable and meaningful units  2. Highlighting (prominence) - choosing which words to emphasize for the right effect and why  3. Key (high/low pitch level) moving voice pitch up or down to contrast ideas, and provide verbal paragraphing  4. Tone (rising/falling)- better audience orientation through changes in tone. On words Tone units - 'chunking' What is a tone unit?  • a coherent piece of information which the speaker wants the listener to digest. • It's what you say in one breath. • It has a single tone in it. • There are no fixed rules which say how long a tone unit need be. • Shorter tone units are used if you want to be very clear and emphasize points.  controversial  controVERsial  controversial decision  controVERsial deCISion  a very controversial decision  a VERy controversial deCISion  a very controversial decision indeed  a VERy controversial decision inDEed  it was a very controversial decision indeed  it was a VERy controversial decision inDEed      What is the effect of using different tones?  A speaker uses a fall in part of his/her speech which contains information which s/he thinks is NEW for the hearer.  It is when we think we are telling things to people which they don't know and we want the audience to consider or know about this new information.