Gerard O’Grady
List of John Benjamins publications in which Gerard O’Grady is involved.
Journal
ISSN 0929-998X | E‑ISSN 1569‑9765
2022 Review of Gussenhoven & Chen (2020): The Oxford handbook of language prosody Functions of Language 29:2, pp. 237–246 | Review
2020 Is there a role for prosody within register studies: And if so what and how? Language, Context and Text 2:1, pp. 59–90 | Article
This article examines whether the incorporation of prosody within register studies can lead to a richer description of what speakers can mean in a specific environment. In order to situate how prosody resets the probabilities of contextual variables, a number of texts are examined and it is… read more
2019 English tag questions eliciting knowledge or action: A comparison of the speech function and exchange structure models On mood and speech function and the ‘why’ of text analysis: In honour of Margaret Berry, Fontaine, Lise, Miriam Taverniers and Kristin Davidse (eds.), pp. 86–111 | Article
2017 Theme and prosody: Redundancy or meaning making? Grammar, usage and discourse: Functional studies offered to Kristin Davidse, Vandelanotte, Lieven, Wout Van Praet and Lieselotte Brems (eds.), pp. 274–297 | Article
In a series of extremely influential articles published in the 1960s, Halliday illustrated that what the Prague School labelled as Theme was formed out of two separate but related systems which he labelled Theme and Information (1967a & b). However, as Information is a system grounded in spoken… read more
2016 Given/New: What do the terms refer to? A first (small) step The dynamicity of communication below, around and above the clause, Clarke, Ben and Jorge Arús-Hita (eds.), pp. 9–32 | Article
Previous studies indicate that speakers signal the informational status of referents through a combination of intonation, word order and lexical realisation. In this paper, I argue for a non-binary view of information structure with referents being (1) hearer and discourse new, (2) discourse new… read more
