Діахронний аспект особливостей просодії аудіозаписів кінохронік

Abstract

The article is dedicated to a diachronic research of prosodic differences in style and delivery of information of English television discourse based on the news collection from the United Kingdom. In this research tonal, temporal and pausal features of prosody in news audio materials from different periods in the history of Great Britain are being compared. The first period represents years from 1936 to 1946, whilst the second period highlights present time news, namely 2009–2019. In order to have clearer picture news whith common theme were chosen, in particular, news which are related to the Britishroyal family. Initial sentence serves as the object of the analysis as vitally important one in informative outline, since it presents the main idea of the message. For the diachronic analysis of differences in the prosody of television discourse 30 sentences of the first group and 30 sentences of the second group were selected. The tempo is taken into consideration in the first place, then the following prosodic characteristics such as the pause and frequency of the main tone are being viewed. To identify correlations between prosodic parameters, which can be traced by perceptual observation and acoustic analysis of a collection of digitally recorded samples of television discourse sentences in diachronic comparison, a software for the phonetic speech research – Praat was used. Measurements indicate significant changes in the prosodic characteristics of a selected linguistic material from different periods of time, namely, changes in pitch configurations as well as a decrease in the speech rate and in the number of pauses in selected audio recordings of present news in comparison with the newsreels from 1936–1946 s.