THE ROLE OF PROSODY, SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES IN DEFINING COMMUNICATIVE AIM OF UTTERANCE
Journal Title: Записки з романо-германської філології - Year 2014, Vol 1, Issue
Abstract
The article deals with the problems connected with the functioning of American prosody in business discourse. Prosodic, lexical and syntactic affective means are defined in convincing monologues. Frequency of key words and their accentuation attract the listeners' attention to that part of utterance, which is accentuated according to the goals of both the speaker and communicative situation. The relevance of the chosen topic is dictated by the process of globalization, the development of business contacts and cooperation in the field of business, and in this regard, the growing need for more in-depth and detailed study of the conditions of successful communication. The subject of this study is prosodic characteristics in their relation to the lexical composition of words and a pragmatic objective of impact in monological discourse. The material of research is based on the monological part of interviews of 10 American businessmen in Audiocourse "Conversations with the greatest world leaders of business network", publishing house "Upline" 1996. The total duration of the experimental material was 5 hours. Monological utterances of 3 men and 3 women were selected for the audit analysis. Thus, the narrow corpus of study lasts 45 minutes. As the minimal unit of analysis in this study we consider the intonation group defined as a speech segment, limited on two sides by pauses and having a prosodic integrity and completeness. The purpose of this study is to identify the prosodic speech means that contribute to the realization of the communicative strategies aimed at attracting new "leaders" for business expansion. Based on the purpose of the study, this paper addresses the following tasks: - To identify the relative frequency of key words relating to the frame 'success - business - leaders" and the syntactic and lexical means of their foregrounding in discourse, - To conduct an audit analysis of melodic configurations of quasi-spontaneous monological speech employing the system of phonetic marking. The problem of prosodic realization of the function of impact has been paid much attention. However, in our opinion, this issue requires a further careful study, as the realization of function of impact involves linguistic means. Along with prosodic means we should talk about the lexical and syntactic means of foregrounding the relevant information in discourse, i.e. an integrated approach when dealing with this phenomenon.
Authors and Affiliations
N. R. Grygoryan, Y. M. Muzia
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP415550
- DOI -
- Views 68
- Downloads 0
UKRAINIAN TRANSLATIONS OF FRENCH WOMEN’S PROSE OF THE SOVIET PERIOD (THE ROLE OF THE JOURNAL “VSESVIT”)
The article deals with the history of Ukrainian translations of French women’s prose. The role of the journal of Foreign Literature “Vsesvit” is described. It has been established that the Soviet period had its particula...
OBSCENE RIDDLES: MECHANISMS OF AMBIGUITY
The article is devoted to the problem of ambiguous meaning encoded in obscene riddles. The means of ambiguity formation are analyzed on examples of French, Spanish, and Ukrainian obscene riddles. The methods of the resea...
ENGLISH GUIDEBOOKS TO UKRAINE AS POLYCODE TEXTS
The article outlines main aspects of study of the English tourism terminology, in particular, functional. General specific features of the English guides and peculiarities of tourism terms functioning in them have been v...
THE STRUCTURE OF THE ASSOCIATIVE FIELD OF COSMOPOETONYMS
The article analyzes the structure of the associative field of English-speaking cosmopoetonyms. As the object of study English cosmopoetonyms were chosen, as the subject- the structure of their associative field. The res...
THE NUMERALS IN GERMANIC LINGUISTIC RESEARCH
Numerals are an essential part of language since they determine the relation of a single person to his surrounding. The functioning of numerals and the sophistication of their system define the complexity of the language...