Author’s name:
Yulia A. Nenasheva
Abstract:
The cognitive-discursive approach used in experimental research helps to reveal specific be-havior of language units which is conditioned by particular characteristics of the immediate communicative situation. The cognitive aspect of this approach describes how the human mind works to adapt speech production processes to ever-changing conditions of communica-tive activity, which results in changes of the functions of language units used in these pro-cesses. Since, either in oral or written forms, texts are the material result of this activity, acoustic analysis helps to evaluate the character of modifications of sound sequences as well as to define their intonation structure that facilitates the performance of utterances in dis-course. Corpus analysis helps to evaluate pragmatic factors that maintain speech production processes and to describe their influence in the usage of language units.
The relevance of the research lies in the need to have a better understanding and a more thor-ough description of the behavior of intonation language units in discourse as well as its corre-lation to the cognitive processes in speech production. With this goal in mind, the author ap-plies the cognitive-discursive approach to experimental phonetic research of intonation in dis-course. The paper presents the results of examining the process of “hybridization” of direct imperative utterances, identifying types of such “hybridization,” and looking at conditions of speakers’ activity which accompany this “hybridization.” Using the methodology of experi-mental discourse analysis, the author shows how functional variability of this particular lan-guage unit in specific discourse environments can lead to significant changes in the intention-al meaning of the unit, i. e., to imperative utterances acting as interjections.
In specific discourse environments, accompanied by marked emphasis in the semantic struc-ture of the utterances and constrained by psycho-physiological thresholds and limitations of information processing mechanisms, speech production processes form a “hybrid” which combines characteristics of both a direct imperative and an interjection. This “hybridization” can be complete or partial. The “hybrid” maintains the illocutionary force of an imperative utterance due to its formulaic syntactic structure and intonation, characterized by less varia-tion than that of an interjection, and the intonation of such units complies with the codified intonation standard of the English language. At the same time, its acoustic features corre-spond to the acoustic features of 1st and 2nd type interjections: “hybrids” that correspond to 1st type interjections consist of rare sounds and sound sequences, while “hybrids” that corre-spond to 2nd type interjections retain their sound structure completely or partially.
| Section | LANGUAGE AND CULTURE |
| DOI: | 10.47388/2072-3490/lunn2021-54-2-28-42 |
| Downloads | 443 |
| Key words | intonation; imperative; interjection; cognitive-discursive approach; functional variation; prosody. |
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