Question

write a note on the type and function of tone in speech

Answer 1

Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning – that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.[1] All verbal languages use pitch to express emotional and other paralinguistic information and to convey emphasis, contrast, and other such features in what is called intonation, but not all languages use tones to distinguish words or their inflections, analogously to consonants and vowels. Languages that do have this feature are calledtonal languages; the distinctive tone patterns of such a language are sometimes calledtonemes,[2] by analogy with phoneme. Tonal languages are common in Africa, East Asia, and Mexico, but rare elsewhere in Asia and in Europe; as many as seventy percent of world languages may be tonal.

Answer 2

The attitude of a text toward the subject being discussed is called tone. Description most clearly defines tone in literature is the writer’s attitude toward the audience and the subject. Tone refers to the choices of words through which tone is conveyed. Through tone, a writer conveys its viewpoints a subject. A theme is involved in every written piece. Tone refers to the way which author approaches the subject and the theme. The tone can be informal, formal, comic, sad and so forth.