Phonostylictics

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 508.

The choice of prosodic means depends on the purpose of utterance. The choice of style depends on extra-linguistic factors such age, occupation, sex, emotional state and purpose.

¤ Scientific Style:delivering lectures, seminars, reading aloud prose, conversations on scientific topic.

Description: highly emotional, aimed to draw attention as much as it is possible. May sound more entertaining than informative.

• Tones:HF, FR, RFR
• Scales:Stepping, sound weighty
• Heads:High, climbing + LR
• Loudness:either diminished or increased acc to the importance
• Tempo:full of contrast
• Pauses:unexpected pauses to draw attention

¤ Declamatory Style:used on stage, in TV studio performances, verse or prose reciting.

Description: highly emotional, still depends on the type of prose\poetry. Needs special training.

• Tones:
• Scales:
• Heads: all types
• Loudness:
• Tempo:
• Pauses:

Depending on the type of poetry\prose and the emotions author demonstrates

¤ Publicistic Style:Public speeches dealing with social or political problems, parliamentary debates, congress, election campaigns.

Description: rhythm is properly organized.

• Tones:tonal contrasts
• Scales:Stepping, sound weighty
• Heads:broken, due to extensive use of accidental rises, high-level heads alternate with low-level heads.
• Loudness:enormously increased or unexpectedly diminished
• Tempo:moderately slow with important parts, faster when less imp parts.
• Pauses:long, rhetorical silence is often used.

¤ Formal Style:TV and radio announcers, various official situations. Reading news, business tasks, weather forecasts etc.

Description: neutral, dispassionate

• Tones:LF mostly
• Scales:Falling or Level
• Heads:High, climbing + LR
• Loudness:normal or little bit high
• Tempo:stable or slow
• Stress:decentralized
• Rhythm:normal and properly organized

¤ Conversational style:used in everyday life, less attention on the effect produced.

Description: relaxed