Abstract: English is a tone language, its tone pattern is part of sentence structure. In English, intonation has extraordinary significance to transfer information. The importance has attracted widespread attention at home and abroad. The tone has different functions: the accentual function, the semantic function, the grammatical function, and the attitudinal function. Different functions have different effects on communication. When Chinese people talk with native English speakers, they often failed to continue because of incorrectly understanding of intonation. The study is started in this backdrop. Through theresearch of dialogue in “Growing Pains”, analyze English words, sentences with different stress and produce different meanings. The purpose is to understand the using features of stress function, so promote Chinese students with a better understanding when studying English intonation function in English, and to promote the communicative ability.

Key words: Intonation function , Stress function

CONTENTS

Abstract

中文摘要

1. Introduction .

2. The background knowledge of Intonation .

2.1 Definition of Intonation

2.1.1 Tone

2.1.2 Stress

2.2 The basic function of English Intonation Analysis

3. The basic rules of stress function of English Intonation .

3.1 Stress function in word

3.2 Stress function in sentence

4. The analysis of effects produced by Stress function in Growing Pains .

4.1 The function of emphasis

4.2 The function of encouragement

4.3 The function of impatience

5. Conclusion .

Bibliography

Acknowledgements.