DYNAMIC PECULIAITIES OF MARITIME COMMANDS IN THE ENGLISH SHIPPING DISCOURSE AND FEATURE FILM DISCOURSE

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the study of the dynamic features of the prosodic organization of English maritime commands used in two types of discourse: authentic shipping discourse and feature film discourse. The research material included audio and video recordings of 120 maritime commands with a total duration of 72 minutes. Audio and video recordings of 60 implementations of English maritime commands were used to investigate commands in the authentic shipping discourse, while video and soundtracks from 10 English-language films containing 60 commands were used to investigate maritime commands spoken by the characters in English-language feature films. The work uses two types of analysis, namely: perceptual analysis of speech segments and instrumental analysis using the PRAAT 6.1.05 software package. The results of a comparative analysis of the prosodic features of authentic maritime commands with maritime commands extracted from British and American films indicate that they differ significantly in a number of dynamic parameters, including different loudness and intensity range; localization of intensity maxima within the syntagm; the coincidence of the maxima of the fundamental frequency and the intensity within the syntagm. A common feature of maritime commands in the two studied types of discourse is the most frequent use of high and volume moderate during their utterance. The study proves that maritime commands in English-language films are characterized by a wider intensity range compared to authentic maritime commands; the maximum of intensity in the syntagm is most frequently localized on the nuclear syllable, and the percentage of the localization on the scale is the lowest; the highest coincidence of the maximum of the fundamental frequency and the intensity also falls on the nuclear syllable of the syntagm.