Special education of the republic of uzbekistan

Chapter IV
Phonostylistics

Phonostylistics came into existence as an attempt to start bridging the gap between linguistic and extra-linguistic factors in analyzing stylistic differentiation of oral texts.

Phonostylistics is not just a new branch of linguistics, but it is a whole different way of looking at phonetic phenomena. It is a way of doing phonetic science which includes various extra-linguistic factors, instead of systematically excluding them.

We shall attempt to delineate the range of issues that are integral to Phonostylistics.

Intonation plays an important role in stylistic differentiation of oral texts. Stylistically explicable deviations from intonational norms reveal conventional patterns differing from language to language. Adult speakers are both transmitters and receivers of the same range of phonostylistic effects carried by intonation. The intonation system of a language provides a consistently recognizable invariant basis of these effects from person to person.

The uses of intonation in this function show that the information so conveyed is, in many cases, impossible to separate from lexical and grammatical meanings expressed by words.

An intonational style can be defined as a system of interrelated intonational means which is used in a certain social sphere and serves a definite aim in communication. There are many ways of dividing styles.

One of the objectives of phonostylistics is the study of intonational functional styles. The problem of intonational styles classification can hardly be regarded as settled yet.

According to it five functional styles can be distinguished in phonostylistics (intonational stylistics):

1. 
   informational (formal) style;
   
2. 
   scientific (academic) style;
   
3. 
   declamatory style;
   
4. 
   publicistic style;
   
5. 
   conversational style;
   

The situational context and the speaker’s purpose determine the choice of an intonational style. The primary situational determinant is the kind of relationship existing between the participants in a communicative transaction.