Stylistic variation of prosody in spoken literary discourse
https://doi.org/10.17021/2712-9519-2026-2-73-79
Abstract
One of the key problems of phonostylistic studies is the identification of the sources of prosodic variation in oral speech. Functional and stylistic modifications of English prosody in spoken literary discourse (read-aloud prose) are determined (among other factors) by the “factor of the reader”. Comparative analysis of the prosodic realization of British prose performed by professional actors and untrained readers allows us to demonstrate the significance of this factor in forming phonostylistic features of literary discourse and to establish the role of suprasegmental phonetic means in conveying its expressiveness.
About the Author
E. L. Freidina
Moscow Pedagogical State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Freidina Elena Leonidovna, doctor of philology, professor, professor of the V.D. Arakin Department of Phonetics and Lexicon of the English Language
Moscow
References
1. Golding William. Lord of the Flies (audiobook). Free Audiobooks URL: https://goldenaudiobook.com/william-golding-lord-of-the-flies-audiobook-free-online/ (accessed: 06.05.25).
2. Hornby Nick. How to be Good (audiobook). Penguin Audiobooks, 2001.
3. Parsons Tony. The Family Way (audiobook). Harper Collins Audiobooks, 2004.
4. Blokh M. Ya. Chelovek i mir skvoz prizmu yazyuka. Filosofskyie razdumia. [Man and the World through the Prism of Language. Philosophical Reflections.] M.: Prometheus, 2020. – 534 p.
5. Konurbaev M. E. The Style and Timbre of English Speech and Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. – 203 p.
6. Wichmann A. Intonation in Text and Discourse. Beginnings, Middles and Ends. – Harlow: Pearson Education Limited, 2000. – 162 p.
7. Brazil D. The Communicative Value of Intonation. Cambridge University Press, 1997. – 204 p.
8. Crystal D. The Gift of the Gab. How Eloquence Works. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016. – 243 p.
9. Ivanova-Lukyanova G. N. Кultura ustnoy rechi. Intonatsia, pauzirovanie, logicheskoye udarenie, temp, ritm. [The Culture of Oral Speech: Intonation, Pausing, Logical Stress, Tempo, and Rhythm.] М.: Flinta. Nauka, 2003. – 197 p.
10. Wells J. C. English Intonation. An Introduction. Cambridge University Press. 2006. – 276 p.
Review
For citations:
Freidina E.L. Stylistic variation of prosody in spoken literary discourse. Linguistics & education. 2026;6(2):73-79. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.17021/2712-9519-2026-2-73-79
Views:
96
JATS XML
Email this article 