Тема: Phonetics and Discourse

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 537.

Семинарское занятие № 20

Тема: The Principles of Stylistic Text Arrangement

Семинарское занятие № 19

Discussion Points:

Analyze the following texts from the point of view of style: “The Exhibition”, extract from “A Farewell to Arms”, extract from a Lecture by Professor John Wells.

1. List the specific language items and their intonation setting in the polylogue “The Exhibition”, which enable the speakers to sound formal and polite.

2. Explain the peculiarities of the intonation patterns in the announcements made. Do all the announcements in all texts possess similar intonation structure?

3. What prosodic characteristics highlight the author's message to the reader in the text with the educational purpose from the novel “A Farewell to Arms”?

4. Give the oral presentation of the texts with the proper rhetoric of the defined phonostyle.

5. Give a survey of rhetorical prosodic delivery of the lecture of Prof. John Wells.

Discussion Points:

1. Give different definitions of discourse.

2. What is the difference between discourse and text?

3. In what way do discourse studies pertain to the development of the modern linguistics?

4. Human communication (oral discourse) is irreversible in its nature, which makes it almost impossible for thorough and all-embracing. What is the role and objectives of phonetician in live communication analysis?

5. How can phonetics (in the area of discourse analysis) facilitate the solution of practical tasks in teaching, language training, medicine, law, politics, performing arts, etc.?

6. Compare the phonetic and extralinguistic features (tempo and clarity of speech, loudness, level of formality or informality, degree of preparedness/ spontaneity, situation of communication, type of interlocutors, etc.) in different types of discourses and registers you have encountered in practical communication:

- academic discourse;

- TV broadcasting;

- theatre performances;

- everyday intercourse.