Viewpoints within the book

In addition to this, there are many parts which can be considered as original (at least to my knowledge) and in this sense, the book diverges from being a pure text book at these points. 

the idea that text analysis should be seen as a semiotic classification and verbalisation problem, 

the view that prosody is composed of the functionally separate systems of affective, augmentative and suprasegmental prosody. 

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