Informational Style

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1. The Informational Style is characterized by the predominant use of volitional intonation patterns.

2. The Informational Style communicates information without giving it any emotional evaluation.

3. The Informational Style is used in the written variety of the language in such forms of communication as monologues and dialogues.

4. The Informational Style is public in nature.

5. When using the Informational Style the speaker is concerned that each type of the sentence is given subjective intonational identity.

6. The sender of the message consciously avoids giving any primary values to the utterances that might not interfere with the listener's correct decoding the message.

7. In most cases the speaker sounds dispassionate.

8. The characteristic feature of the Informational Style is the use of the rising intonational pattern.

9. Normal or slow speed of utterance and irregular rhythm are used in the Informational Style.

10. The general formula of the Informational Style is: (Low Pre-head) + Descending Falling Scale + Low Fall/Low Rise + (tail).

Scientific/Academic Style

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1. Classroom lectures are the most representative examples within the bulk of scientific style.

2. Attention is focused here on a lecture, on a scientific subject and reading aloud a piece of poetic prose.

3. The speech within the Academic style is the written variety of language, which occurs in one-sided form of dialogues in prepared, public, formal discourse.

1. The lecture's purpose is twofold.

4. The style of the lecture and the degree of formality is influenced greatly by the size of the audience.

5. The most common pre-nuclear pattern is ((Low) Pre-head) + Stepping Head.

6. The High-Fall and the Rise-Fall are the most conspicuous tunes which are used as means of both logical emphasis and emphases for contrast.

7. The speed of utterance depends on the importance of different parts of the lecture.

8. The pauses made by the speaker are explicable in terms of hesitation phenomena denoting forgetfulness or uncertainty.

10. The so-called homogeneous head that is a combination of two or several heads may replace the Stepping Head.

11. Compound tunes make oral representation of a written scientific text more impressive by bringing out the most important items in an utterance.

12. Pauses are mostly long and almost always semantically and syntactically predictable.

Publicistic Style

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1. The term "Publicistic Style" serves to label a broad variety of types, which can be distinguished based on the speaker's occupation, situation and purpose.

2. The Publicistic Style is the type of public speaking, dealing with political and economic problems.

3. It is the written variety of English that is being used.

4. The success of a political speechmaker is largely dependent on his/her ability to manipulate intonation and timber quality.

5. The heads are often broken due to extensive use of Accidental Rises to make an utterance more emphatic.

6. The High Level scale is more frequent and the Low Level scale here is indicative of tonal subordination.

7. Tonal Subordination is a case when the pitch level of an intonation group is dependent on the nuclear tone of its neighbours.

8. Semantically and communicatively more important Intonational groups are produced, following the Tonal Subordination, on a lower pitch level.

9. The nuclear tone of a final intonation group is generally High Fall; Low Fall is much less common.

10. Both simple and compound tunes are found within non-final intonation groups.

11. The Low Rise and the Mid Level are typical of less formal and more fluent discourse.

12. The speed of utterance is related to the degree of formality: formal speech is usually fast and less formal situations entail retardation of speed.

13. Variations in rhythm are few.

14. Intonation groups tend to be short and as a result pauses are not numerous, ranging from brief to very long.

15. Hesitation pauses are welcomed and silent hesitation pauses occasionally do occur.

16. Some speakers make use of rhetorical silence and utterance emphasis by means of increased sentence stress and the glottal stop to gain maximum effect.