EMOTIONAL-AND-PRAGMATIC POTENTIAL OF ACCENTUATION IN THE PARABLE DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of prosodic means’ loading in creating emotional didactic utterance conveyed in modern English parables. The relevance of the problem is due to the general tendency of contemporary linguistic studies to analyze the functioning of prosodic means of coding, generating, perception and decoding of didactic loading of the utterance. A conducted experimental-and-phonetic research has shown that accentuation of lexical, grammatical and stylistic linguistic means within their prosodic loading facilitates a process of actualization and decoding of directive intentions aiming at evoking the recipient’s emotions. It has been established that directive intentions are precepted as neutral according to their emotional level due to a restricted number of lexical and grammatical means, and a regular tempo and rhythmic structure without various suprasegmental patterns. In contrast, the directive intentions and ethical ideas conveyed in the parables and read with more prominent emotional loading are characterized by increase and decrease on loudness, acceleration and slowing of tempo, high or extra high falling nuclear tones in comparison to less accentuated and highlighted intonational parts of a didactic utterance. Despite the variety of lexical, grammatical and stylistic means the most significant emotions and didactic utterances that are characterized by a number of specific invariant prosodic means, by accentuation and prominence of semantic centers conveyed in the didactic utterance of contemporary English parables have been singled out.