Семинарское занятие № 19 Тема: The Principles of Stylistic Text Arrangement

Discussion Points:

Analyze the following texts from the point of view of style: “The Exhibition”, extract from “A Farewell to Arms”, extract from a Lecture by Professor John Wells.

1. List the specific language items and their intonation setting in the polylogue “The Exhibition”, which enable the speakers to sound formal and polite.

2. Explain the peculiarities of the intonation patterns in the announcements made. Do all the announcements in all texts possess similar intonation structure?

3. What prosodic characteristics highlight the author’s message to the reader in the text with the educational purpose from the novel “A Farewell to Arms”?

4. Give the oral presentation of the texts with the proper rhetoric of the defined phonostyle.

5. Give a survey of rhetorical prosodic delivery of the lecture of Prof. John Wells.

Семинарское занятие № 20 Тема: Phonetics and Discourse

Discussion Points:

1. Give different definitions of discourse.

2. What is the difference between discourse and text?

3. In what way do discourse studies pertain to the development of the modern linguistics?

4. Human communication (oral discourse) is irreversible in its nature, which makes it almost impossible for thorough and all-embracing. What is the role and objectives of phonetician in live communication analysis?

5. How can phonetics (in the area of discourse analysis) facilitate the solution of practical tasks in teaching, language training, medicine, law, politics, performing arts, etc.?

6. Compare the phonetic and extralinguistic features (tempo and clarity of speech, loudness, level of formality or informality, degree of preparedness/ spontaneity, situation of communication, type of interlocutors, etc.) in different types of discourses and registers you have encountered in practical communication:

- academic discourse;

- TV broadcasting;

- theatre performances;

- everyday intercourse.

Семинарское занятие № 21 Тема: Phonetic Peculiarities of Style

Discussion Points:

1. How is age connected with the speech behaviour of people and what is its connection with phonetics?

2. Are there any differences in pronunciation depending on the gender of the person?

3. How does the setting affect a person’s pronunciation?

4. What is a phonetic style-forming factor?

5. What is a phonetic style-modifying factor?

6. How does the speaker’s attitude affect communication?

7. Enumerate the forms of communication.

8. What is the difference between public and non-public communication.

9. How does spontaneous speech differ from non-spontaneous?

10. Characterize hesitation, delimitation, and accentuation.

11. Classify phonetic styles.

Семинарское занятие № 22 Тема: Phonostylistic Variety

Discussion Points:

1. What factors form phonostylistic varieties?

1. What possible varieties of speech are there according to the form of communication?

2. What utterances are called spontaneous and prepared?

3. What issues are included in the sphere of phonostylistics?

4. What is meant by formal and informal style?

5. What modifications of consonants can take place in informal style?

6. What are the cases of consonant elision?

7. How are front and back vowels modified in informal speech?

8. What vowels are involved in the process of elision in informal speech?

9. What types of oral texts may exit?

10. What are the classifications of functional styles in the English language?