Fifty Ways to Teach Pronunciation by Tamara Jones

Author:Tamara Jones [Jones, Tamara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wayzgoose Press

Speaker A shifted the focus of the question from book to brother’s because it is new information. We shift focus for several specific purposes:

to contrast old and new information

to highlight contrasts

to correct a misunderstanding

to emphasize agreement.

This is an important skill to cover because proficient English speakers often “hide” messages in their speech, and intonation shifts are the clues. For instance, in this sentence:

Students might assume the car hasn’t been fixed; but proficient English speakers would understand that the car has been fixed – but by someone other than the mechanic.

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