NOMENCLATURE OF RISING AND LEVEL TONES IN THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE POLITICAL DEBATES IN THE EMOTIONALLY UNMARKED PART

Abstract

The article considers the features of using rising tones in a non-emotional part of the English-language political debates. Rising tones have a rather complex modality; in the objective part of it they, basically, express the idea of an unfinished statement, the continuation of a thought. However, the author comes to the conclusion that allotones of rising tones are used by speakers in the aspect of realizing the pragmatic function of the political discourse.

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• Published: January 1, 2018.

Keywords

• фоностилистическая принадлежность политических дебатов
• тоновый признак
• высотнотональные уровни
• немаркированная просодия
• аллотоны восходящих тонов
• диапазон движения восходящего тона
• объективная и субъективная модальность просодии
• phonostylistic characteristic of political debates
• tone characteristic
• high-tonal levels
• unmarked prosody
• allotones of rising tones
• range of rising tone movement
• objective and subjective modality of prosody

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