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PROSODIC MEANS OF IMPLEMENTING THE INTENTIONS OF AGREEMENT AND DISAGREEMENT IN ENGLISH BUSINESS-DISCOURSE: MELODIC COMPONENT
Published 2018-06-27
Keywords
- English dialogical business-discourse,
- agreement,
- disagreement, pitch range,
- fundamental frequency
Abstract
The article focuses on melodic characteristics of agreement and disagreement utterances in the English dialogical business-discourse, namely on the values of the pitch range. Based on the results of instrumental phonetic study the following melodic parameters are described: pitch range, maximum values of fundamental frequency and their location in the syntagm. It has been proved that there is a correlation between the analyzed melodic parameters and certain intentions.