Dr Gerard O'Grady
Overview
Position:
Lecturer
Email:
OGradyGN@cf.ac.uk Telephone: +44(0)29 208 74903
Fax: +44(0)29 208 74502
Extension: 74502
Location: Humanities Extension, Colum Drive, Cathays, Cardiff
Research Group
Centre for Language and Communication Research
Research Interests
My chief research interest lies in exploring the communicative functions of intonation: notably how intonation is used in conjunction with syntactic cues to help segment the speech signal into semantic units analogous to the orthographic units of clause, sentence and paragraph, and how tonality and tonicity choices project information as given or new.
Selected Publications
“An Investigation of How Intonation Helps Signal Information Structure.” In preparation.
“How to handle a woman? Media representations of Ségolène Royal, French presidential candidate“ (2007).
The Unfolded Imagining of Ségolène Royal. (2007). Submitted for publication in conference proceedings Aston University.
“The Intertwining of Lexis, Grammar and Context”. Journal of Research and Culture. March 2005, Eichi University, Hyogo Japan. Pages 25-49.
“The Importance of Engaged Reading”. Journal of Research and Culture. March 2004, Eichi University, Hyogo, Japan. Pages 33 - 63.
“Discourse Intonation and read aloud text: How intonation helps hearers contextualise unfamiliar monologue”. Journal of Research and Culture. March 2003, Eichi University, Hyogo Japan. Pages 55 – 74.
A review of “The Communicative Value of Intonation in English” by David Brazil in From the Language Classroom, No.2 SILEC, 2001. Sapientia University. Hyogo. Japan.
Publications
“An Investigation of How Intonation Helps Signal Information Structure.” In preparation.
“How to handle a woman? Media representations of Ségolène Royal, French presidential candidate“ (2007).
The Unfolded Imagining of Ségolène Royal. (2007). Submitted for publication in conference proceedings Aston University.
“The Intertwining of Lexis, Grammar and Context”. Journal of Research and Culture. March 2005, Eichi University, Hyogo Japan. Pages 25-49.
“The Importance of Engaged Reading”. Journal of Research and Culture. March 2004, Eichi University, Hyogo, Japan. Pages 33 - 63.
“Discourse Intonation and read aloud text: How intonation helps hearers contextualise unfamiliar monologue”. Journal of Research and Culture. March 2003, Eichi University, Hyogo Japan. Pages 55 – 74.
A review of “The Communicative Value of Intonation in English” by David Brazil in From the Language Classroom, No.2 SILEC, 2001. Sapientia University. Hyogo. Japan.
Biography
Prior to completing my PhD in Discourse Intonation at Birmingham I taught for many years at various universities in Japan where I taught a range of courses focusing on pronunciation, functional approaches to grammar and critical reading of news texts. I have also worked at Swansea University as a lecturer where I taught courses on sociolinguistics, dialectology and language origins. I am currently working on revising my PhD for publication.
Teaching Interests
I currently teach the postgraduate module Phonology SET008, the second year undergraduate module Pronunciation of English SE1335 and teach on the first undergraduate module Introduction to Language and Society SE1335.