As television goes international we're hearing a lot of UK accents over here
in USA for news reporting. Especially Fox News Network in the morning.
Definite tonality difference in delivery, especially the last word of a
report.
Tom Zurinskas
>From: John Wells <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: John Wells <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: mistaken tonality
>Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:48:50 +0100
>
>I hope I'm not boring people by discussing intonation again.
>
>Last night the continuity announcer on BBC1 television, trailing the
>programme that was about to start on the sister channel, and no doubt
>reading from his autocue, said
>
> Newsnight is over | on BBC2.
>
>- making it sound as if it had just finished. What he clearly should have
>said is
>
> Newsnight | is over on BBC2.
>
>- ie across on the other channel.
>
>I leave it to others to formulate why those tonality choices are associated
>with those meanings.
>
>John Wells
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