Л. Л. Баранова

ДИФФЕРЕНЦИАЛЬНАЯ СИСТЕМА СОВРЕМЕННОГО АНГЛИЙСКОГО ЯЗЫКА

2-е издание, дополненное и переработанное

L. L. Baranova

Москва

Издательство ПСТГУ

2008

THE FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES OF MODERN ENGLISH

УДК ББК

811.111(035.3) 81.2 Англ Б24

Под общим руководством

заслуженного деятеля науки РСФСР

профессора О. С. А х м а н о в о й

Книга издается в авторской редакции.

Баранова Л.Л.

Б24 Дифференциальная система современного анг-

лийского языка. 2-е изд., доп. и перераб. / Л.Л. Бара­нова. — М.: Изд-во ПСТГУ, 2008. — 96 с.

ISBN 978-5-7429-0346-8

Монография посвящена описанию дифференциального (диа­критического) уровня современного английского языка в единс­тве его устной и письменной разновидностей. Таким образом, она призвана преодолеть разрыв между устной и письменной форма­ми английской речи, который до сих пор препятствует целесооб­разному и эффективному изучению и преподаванию английского языка.

Предназначается для студентов, аспирантов и преподавателей английского языка филологических факультетов университетов и педагогических институтов.

УДК 811.111(035.3) ББК 81.2 Англ

Isbn 978-5-7429-0346-8

© Л.Л. Баранова, 2008

© Оформление. Издательство Православного

Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного

университета, 2008

Foreword

The title of the present book is meant to present in a ’con-densed’ form those aspects of anglistic study and teaching which so far have appeared in different publications under a number of separate and not mutually connected terms, or descriptions of the subject-matter, such as Phonetics, Phonology, Writing, Orthogra­phy, Punctuation and others.

Sometimes the gap is bridged by describing this whole aspect of English as “the fundamentals of language” or “the indispen­sable foundation”, or “the feature level”, or “the diacritical level”. We hope that the ’condensed’ title above with the concomitant explanations will be adequate in the sense that the reader will be able to understand what it is all about.

The book consists of two parts — “The Segmental Level” and “The Suprasegmental Level”. The first part, in its turn, is composed of the Introduction, in which all the more general and methodologically important issues are raised, and five chapters: Chapter 1. “The English Articulation Basis”; Chapter 2. “The System of English Phonemes”; Chapter 3. “A Brief Overview of the History of the English Orthography”; Chapter 4. “Systems of Transcription”; and, finally, Chapter 5. “Modern English Or­thography as a System”.

The second part of the book consists of two chapters: “Syn­tactics and Suprasyntactics” and “The Semiotics of Punctuation Marks”. There are nine appendices in which the reader can find all the relevant additional information.

However great the diversity of these subjects may appear at first glance, the pivotal idea of the whole book consists in treating oral and written forms of speech as recto and verso of the same page. We hope that what we have tried to achieve in the present

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manual has been sorely neglected so far. This has enabled us to present the main idea of the whole monograph in the best pos­sible form to our readers. In greater detail this (what we think) new approach is expounded in the Introduction and, of course, it is further elaborated in the above-mentioned parts.

My heartfelt thanks go to Professor O. Akhmanova for her constant help and attention, to Professor O. Alexandrova for her unfailing advice and encouragement.

Credit goes to Professors L. Minajeva and M. Davydov who perused the manuscript and pointed out some of the more argu­able issues.

Thanks are also due to all the members of the phonetic sec­tion of the English Department, Moscow University, whose books and dissertations have proved to be indispensable in the comple­tion of the manual.

Part I. THE SEGMENTAL LEVEL