THE PECULIARITIES OF THE IMPERATIVE STRUCTURES TEMPORAL ORGANISATION IN LECTURE AND SERMON DISCOURSES
Journal Title: Записки з романо-германської філології - Year 2018, Vol 2, Issue
Abstract
The article is devoted to the study of the imperative constructions temporal organization in the sermon and lecture discourses. Based on the presence of common intentional criteria for lecture and sermon discourses (transfer of knowledge and the point of view / belief formation), these discourses are considered in the article as a special kind of institutional instructive discourse with a common compositional structure. In the implementation of the lecturer and the preacher’s operational strategies, an important role is played by the ways of encouraging the audience to communicate, carried out, in particular, by the imperative constructions. Among the prosodic means involved in the imperatives implementation, a huge role belongs to the tempo changes nature and the pause features. To determine the degree of the intonation temporal component participation in the design of the sermon and lecture oral text, a complex phonetic analysis was conducted, the purpose of which was to identify the general trend of the discourses under study temporal organization. As a result of perceptual and electroacoustic analysis, the main temporal characteristics of the investigated imperative structures were revealed. Instrumentally, it is found out that imperative constructions tempo in the introduction of all the investigated types of text varies from slow to normal. An analysis of the textual pauses showed differences (minor ones) between the lecture and the sermon, which consist not so much in the use of pauses in various texts, but in the percentage distribution of the different duration pauses in the text. The frequency of various duration pauses occurrences when pronouncing imperative constructions is directly related to the structure of the text. The instrumental analysis of the oral English-speaking imperative constructions temporal characteristics in the lecture and sermon discourses allows us to conclude that there are integral and distinctive temporal parameters of the constructions under study. The presence of the integral characteristics proves the validity of attributing the investigated types of discourses to institutional oral discourse of an instructive type.
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К. Bondarenko
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- DOI 10.18524/2307-4604.2018.2(41).151337
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