DYNAMIC COMPONENT OF INTONATION PARTICIPATION IN THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ORAL PRAYER TEXT IN ENGLISH FILM DISCOURSE
Journal Title: Записки з романо-германської філології - Year 2018, Vol 2, Issue
Abstract
The article deals with the investigation of dynamic peculiarities of oral prayer texts used in modern English film discourse. Prayer personages’ appeal to God manifests intertextuality of the film discourse, that is the use of the elements of the existing text in the process of the creation of a new one. Two ways of personages’ appeal to God – with a canonical prayer registered in the Book of Common Prayers and with a “spontaneous” prayer address – have been investigated in the present paper. Four compositional parts having different pragmatic aims typical of the prayer texts of both types have been singled out. To determine the degree of the dynamic component participation in the organization of the prayer oral text, a complex phonetic analysis was conducted, the purpose of which was to identify the general trend of the dynamic organization of the prayer texts within a film discourse under study. As a result of perceptive and electroacoustic analysis, the main dynamic characteristics of the investigated texts were revealed. Distinctive intonation characteristics of the canonical prayer and the “spontaneous” prayer within a film component of intonation as a leading parameter. Instrumentally, it is found out that the differences in maximum intensity of the investigated prayer texts are essential. The “spontaneous” prayer demonstrates much higher maximum intensity than the canonical prayer. Howeverthe canonical prayer texts as well are characterized by the increased maximum intensity in introductory and concluding parts. The average syllabic intensity of the phrases constituting supraphrasal unities shows both the differences in their rate and the mutual tendency in their variability in different parts of the prayer. Thus the experimental research proved the hypothesis about the leading role of the dynamic component of intonation in prayer texts within a film discourse differentiation.
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A. Lisovska
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- EP ID EP625887
- DOI 10.18524/2307-4604.2018.2(41).151352
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