THE IMPORTANCE OF INTONATION

THE IMPORTANCE OF INTONATION

Intonation is fundamental to genuine communication because communicative competence is the ability not only to formulate grammatical correct utterances, but also to signal interactional strategies, such as interrupting, asking for clarifcation, taking the floor, changing the subject, concluding and argument, or constraining a hearer to reply.

Intonation is is a powerful tool for negociating meaning,managing interaction, and achieving discourse coherence.