PERCEPTED INTONATION FEATURES OF ENGLISH PUBLIC SPEECHES (BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF PREACHING AND TRIAL DISCOURSES)

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the results of the audit analysis of the texts of oral discourses (preaching and trial). The purpose of this article is to identify the features of the intonation organization of the texts of oral English sermons and court speeches. The object of study is preaching and trial discourses as a special kind of institutional discourse of persuasive type. The subject of the research is the peculiarities of the intonation organization of oral English sermons and court speeches. To achieve this goal, a phonetic study of the perceived prosodic characteristics of speech realizations of sermons and court speeches was conducted, in the process of which the method of scientific observation (subjective) was used, which contains audit and audit analysis of selected objects and identification of the phonological status of the studied units; quantitative analysis made it possible to interpret the data obtained empirically during the audit analysis. On the basis of the conducted audit analysis it is possible to draw certain conclusions concerning the intonation organization common for the researched discourses. The auditors' identification of parts of the researched sermons and court speeches proved the validity of their division into the compositional parts mentioned above and made it possible to conclude that there are certain linguistic factors that allow to identify parts of the text with high probability. The leading intonation parameter to enhance the persuasive effect of speeches was the tempo. The melodic component of intonation, namely the melodic contour, has also proved to be a powerful intonation tool for influencing and achieving a persuasive effect, while volume is not an important intonation parameter involved in persuasion. The perspective of the research is seen in conducting a comprehensive instrumentalphonetic study to verify the data obtained on the prosodic organization of persuasive statements in preaching and trial discourses.