Phonostylistics. Phonetics style-forming and style-modifying factors.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 828.

English vowels

Position of soft palate

Force of articulation (energy difference)

Place of articulation

Degree of noise (tone prevalence)

— Noise consonants

o (— occlusive, — occlusive-constrictive, — constrictive )

— Sonorants

o Occlusive

o Constrictive (— medial, — lateral)

Sonorants — semivowels (function vs. phonetic). By British phoneticians.

By soviet ones: art. acou. and phon. point of view — consonants.

— Labial (— bilabial, — labiodental)

— Lingual (— forelingual, — mediolingual, — backlingual)

— Glottal

— Weak (lenis) — voiced

— Strong (fortis) — voiceless

— Oral

— Nazal

Stability of articulation:

— Stable (monophthongs)

— Fairly changeable

— changable

Lip rounding:

— spread

— rounded

— unrounded

Checkness: Sound is more checked before voiceless consonant

Length: short and long (relevant feature? Jones finds oppositions (chronemes), vasil'ev — no)

Tenseness: tense (long), lax (short)

The style is the principles of selections and arrangement and the ways of combining. Non-linguistic features correlate with phonetic, lexical and grammatical levels of the language.

Style forming factor: the purpose or aim of the utterance.

Style modifying factors: the speakers attitude, the form of communication, degree of formality, the degree of spontaneity

Short description of all styles (Inform, Academic, Public, Declam, Convers)