3. Read the extracts and define what intonation do they need to be pronounced with: intellectual, emotional or volitional.

1) Wave amplitude is the vertical distance between the highest or lowest part

of the wave and a horizontal reference level (for example, an ocean surface that has

no waves); wave amplitude equals one-half the wave height.

2) So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

3) Are you serious? Is that all they can pay us for this work?

4) Attention! First and second-year students needed for summer jobs at the campus.

5) Why is it that you make me of no account and think that my wealth and power are nothing? Why is it that you place these poor working people above the richest king in the world?

6) It’s your life and it’s up to you whether to waste it in that dreadful place. So what do you say?

7) This process has three main characteristics which influence the results that can be interpreted as positive negative and neutral.

8) Oh, darling, you can't go around with that tatty green canvas thing. You look like some sort of Mary Poppins person who's fallen on hard times. Just a little compact case with a pull-out handle. It's amazing how much you can get in. Do you want it in navy on red or red on navy?

9) I beg your pardon, sir; I thought it was my Harry.

10) The advancement of multilingualism and the definition of learning goals and language levels is a central concern of the Council of Europe’s policy on language. The Council of Europe released recommendations on this topic, which were outlined specifically and in detail.

4. Answer the questions for self control.

1. What is phonostylistics?

2. What kind of context do you know?

3. What is the intonation style?

4. What types and forms of speech do you know?

UNIT 9

1. Study the information about the academic style in English.

Scientific (academic) style is characterized by the use of intellectual and volitional intonation. The speaker’s purpose is to get the ‘message’ to the audience, to get and direct the listener’s attention to the message, to establish the contact with the audience and maintain it throughout the lecture. Scientific intonalional style is frequently used by university lecturers, school teachers, scientist in formal and informal discussions, in reading aloud scientific purpose, in other words, in one-sided form of communication, in prepared public formal discourse. To make the whole lecture sound weighty the speaker should use mostly Intonation Pattern II, because the Stepping Head enables the lecturer to sound categoric, judicial, considered and persuasive. For logical emphasis and emphasis for contrast the speaker can use the High-Fall and the Fall-Rise. The ideas that require neither argument nor discussion can be underlined by a succession of several high-falling tones. As for the speed of utterance, more important parts are pronounced slower, while less important parts are characterized by greater speed of utterance. Not all pauses are semantically predictable. The speaker can also use the so called hesitation phenomena denoting forgetfulness or uncertainty. Moreover, a silent pause at an unexpected point calls the listener’s attention to the message. The general speed of utterance is never too fast.