SOME PHONOSTYLISTIC FEATURES OF INTONATION IN ENGLISH

Аннотация

The article explores how intonation functions stylistically across different speech registers in English, including scientific, official, publicist, colloquial, and literary-artistic styles. Intonation is treated as a complex prosodic phenomenon comprising pitch, stress, tempo, rhythm, and pause, which shape both grammatical and expressive meaning. The analysis integrates insights from British, American, and Russian phonetic traditions—drawing on works by O’Connor & Arnold, Pierrehumbert, and Bryzgunova. Through detailed examples from literature, media, and everyday communication, the article demonstrates how contrastive stress, emphatic pitch movement, and pauses enrich speech with emotional and stylistic depth. The study concludes that phonostylistic variation is crucial for understanding discourse functions and that future research may inform fields such as language pedagogy, speech therapy, and artificial intelligence-based speech systems.