Abstract
The widespread use of the Daniel Jone's English Pronouncing Dictionary in the commonwealth countries seem to imply that British Received Pronunciation (BRP) is the model of English prescribed for the learners of English in these countries. To my mind, this form of pronunciation represents an "unrealistic" objective and one that is perhaps "undesirable". I consider RP as the "normative model" that limits itself to the consideration of communicative intentions attributed to the speaker only. I should like to argue in favour of a communicative model which goes by the measure of success with which a transaction between two participants is negotiated. In the second part, the paper discusses the importance of paraphonological features such as "plesasant" voice quality for communicative purposes. It is suggested that perhaps a course of Spoken English based on "diction" and "dramatics" rather than on the exact phonetic quality of sounds will prove to be more effective. Phonetic correlates of what is called "pleasant" voice quality have also been discussed.
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