ПРОТОТИПОВІ ІНТОНАЦІЙНІ МОДЕЛІ АНГЛОМОВНОГО ДИСКУРСУ: КОГНІТИВНИЙ ПІДХІД

I. V. Krasovska

doi:10.26661/2414-1135-2024-96-13

I. V. Krasovska Educational and Science Institute of Philology of Kyiv National Shevchenko University https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1567-1443

DOI: https://doi.org/10.26661/2414-1135-2024-96-13

Keywords: intonation, function, cognitive approach, prototypical intonation pattern, dichotomy, pitch, terminal tone, interval

Abstract

The article surveys function that intonation units play in the discourse, systemizing scientific approaches to that issue. The function of intonation units is analyzed in the framework of structural, pragmatic, functional and cognitive perspective. The paper rests on the overview of each functional capacity of intonation, viewed within the singled out scientific approaches. The article highlights constitutive, segmentative, distinctive, stylistic and cognitive functions of intonation elements in the discourse. The focus of the article is on the role of intonation units in the realm of cognitive mechanisms that allow speakers to code and decode linguistic information during the process of communication. Intonation units are approached as cognitive clues that trigger procession of acoustic information in the consciousness of the listener. The cognitive function of intonation is viewed in the prism of prototypical intonation patterns that lay foundation of speech generation and procession. The paper analyzes and systemizes the typology and architecture of melodic patterns that are defined as universal intonation models, built by the interplay of basic intonation parameters. Besides, the concept of intonation pattern is defined in the paradigm of cognitive approach to the study of intonation. The typology and architecture of intonation models is highlighted within the scope of music moods, symbolic and cognitive perspectives. The assays of comparative phonetic experimental research into intonation peculiarities of emotional and neutral English discourse are presented in the paper. The intonation units are analyzed in correlation to prototypical meanings that they realize in the discourse. The article describes the typology and architecture of prototypical intonation patterns that ensure unambiguous decoding of universal meanings. The typology of the prototypical intonation patterns is presented within the dichotomy of universal meanings which are defined as: incentive/ statement; background/foreground; major/minor; approval/disapproval. The suggested typology of prototypical intonation patterns reflects functional capacity of intonation in reliance with the cognitive mechanism of decoding linguistic information and embraces such prototypical intonation patterns as: incentive, intensification, identification and estimation.

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PROTOTYPICAL INTONATION PATTERNS IN ENGLISH DISCOURSE: COGNITIVE APPROACH

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