Tomb of Nebamum, 1400 BC

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 512.

The phonetic style forming means

The speaker is to a definite extent governed by his audience in choice of vocabulary units, grammatical structures, tempo of speech, distinctiveness of articulation, & so on. E.g. [‘lemi`si:] for “let me see”, [dn'nou] for “don't know”, [freidnot] for “afraid not”, [sLmpm] for “smth”. In a free chat are ‘acceptable' (though non-obligatory) assimilation & elision, but in other more official situations they are ‘unacceptable' with those who speak the orthoepic norm. It appears that the use of one phoneme for another as often as not a style-forming means. It may have a stylistic coloring & produce a striking effect. Elision, reduction & assimilation may, therefore, signal stylistic differences. Take the sentence “We can trust him to do it well” said in 2 different ways:1. [wi kn'trLst im tә 'du it wel] 2. ['wi: 'k n 'trLst 'him tu 'du: it wel] O'Connor states that they belong to different styles: the 1^st to colloquial conversation, the 2^{nd to} a political speech delivered to a large audience.On account of all that, the degree of assimilation, reduction & elision may serve to distinguish phonetic styles.Besides these segmental features, there are prosodic features which enable people to distinguish between different phonetic styles.

Can you see – each part of a human body is seen from the most readable angle. A profile is clear than a full face, but the eyes are queer seen from the front. Full front is tall so, side ways – legs. So, that's Tomb of Nebamum.And he's enormous with a small wife, and a tiny daughter. And then what energy in a hunting a cat, and the birds.

The Egyptian artists felt free plainly to paint birds with enormous vitality. He has not got to make it is clear as he had but with the human figure.

But if we want to art that takes the human body seriously we have to wait for the rise of the neighbouring civilization.