EXAMPLE OF PHONOSTYLISTIC ANALYSIS.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 696.

1.This extract (poem/text) belongs to the poetic style, which is characterized by … (a few sentences from the theory).

2.This fragment (poem/text) was prepared beforehand. The purpose of the analyzed fragment is … . The speaker sounds …

3.In the extract (poem/text) I came across the following lexical, stylistic devices: … (e.g. epithet, metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole, understatement, irony, etc), which were mainly pronounced as part of the … scale or with the … tone(e.g. …).

As for syntactic structure of this text, the main feature of it is the frequent use of …(e.g. rhetorical questions, inversions, elipses, repetition, parallel constructions, etc), usually as part of the … scale or with the … tone (e.g. … ). Sometimes the speaker utters … with the High Fall, making the sentence more emphatic and significant (e.g. …).

4.As for sense-groups division, this fragment is generally characterized by the use of short and very short sense groups. It can be explained by the fact that the speaker tries to make very important item of the speech more emphatic (e.g. …). At the same time some phrases are characterized by an alternation of short and long sense-groups, because some of them are filled with relatively unimportant words in contrast with more significant short sense-groups.

5.The basic intonation patterns used here include High Level Scale showing the importance of the utterance and Broken Scale (both descending and ascending) due to extensive use of accidental rises making the utterance more emphatic (e.g. …).

Speaking about nuclear tones of final

intonation groups we must note the most

frequent tone here is the Low Fall (e.g. …).

But sometimes when the continuation of the

speaker's idea is implied , the Low Rise is used

(e.g.). The use of the High Fall or compound

tunes is very rare in this fragment.

The shape of the nuclear syllable pitch

movement in non-final intonation groups is more

varied. Both simple and compound tunes

are used here but the Low Rise prevails over the

other times (e.g…).

6.As far as tempo is concerned, it's mainly slow (e.g. …).

Variations in duration are seldom observed in this fragment.

7.Pauses are always semantically significant. That's why they are widely used in this extract. The length of pauses varies from short to

long. But long non-filled pauses are more common (e.g. …).