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Preface by Halliday

王宗炎序

导读

Author's acknowledgements

Publisher's acknowledgements

CHAPTER ONE: Introduction

CHAPTER TWO: The design and development of corpora

CHAPTER THREE: Corpus-based descriptions of English

CHAPTER FOUR: Corpus analysis

CHAPTER FIVE: Implications and applications of corpus-based analysis

References

Index

文库索引

It is very important to have clear conventions for transcribing prosodic phenomena and we should not underestimate the need for systematic training and regular interaction among transcribers so that there is consistency of practice.