Book review: Winnie Cheng,Chris Greaves and Martin Warren,A Corpus-Driven Study of Discourse Intonation: The Hong Kong Corpus of Spoken English (Prosodic) (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 32). Amsterdam/ Philadelphia,PA: John Benjamins,2008. x + 325 pp. (incl. CD-Rom). 105.00/US$158.00 (hbk)

Brazil, D. ( 1985) The Communicative Value of Intonation. Birmingham: University of Birmingham (2nd edn, 1997, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).