Abstract
The main aim of the article is to describe, analyze and compare main prosodic categories that are realized in a unique context, namely in political media discourse. The article looks into the principles of classification of the prosodic categories as well as at realizational differences of three main prosodic categories: syllable, foot and intonation phrase. These categories are distinguished unanimously by the majority of the researchers and are described in the article form their structural and cognitive perspectives. The realizational differences of these categories derive from pragmatic and linguacultural features of English media communication. In the article media communication is represented with political media discourse which is understood as a new contextual model of media communication and is characterized by high degree of immediacy and interactivity. Certain attention in the article is given to the results of the comparative research of the realizational differences of the prosodic categories done by the author. On the basis of the data resulted from the prosodic and content analysis the author concludes that the realizational differences of the prosodic categories are often due to pragmatics of the discourse and the type of discourse itself.
Highlights
IntroductionThe term “category” has been studied for a long time from different perspectives (philosophical, linguistic, sociological, etc.) and has got many different representations
The term “category” has been studied for a long time from different perspectives and has got many different representations
OF THE RESEARCH Comparative analysis of the prosodic categories in political media discourse, which is presented in this article, was carried out based on the authentic empirical material of political discourse in two variants of the English language: the British variant ( BE) and the American variant ( AE)
Summary
The term “category” has been studied for a long time from different perspectives (philosophical, linguistic, sociological, etc.) and has got many different representations. The term “category” in general scientific sense is the fundamental term that reflects sustainable and regular connections and relations between reality and experience or knowledge [Ozhegov, 1992; Yartseva, 1998]. Many researches show that categories in linguistics form a “closed” system where the members are united with one or several features and function as forms or sustainable principles of intellectual process [Yartseva, 1998; Akhmanova, 2007]. Everything mentioned above gives us the reason to assume that any category (regardless of the scientific approach from which it is studied) is of cognitive nature, as it reflects and enshrines human activity, experience and knowledge. In this article our primary focus is on descriptive, theoretical and comparative analyses of prosodic categories that are actualized in political media discourse in two different linguacultures (British and American) united by one language. LITERATURE REVIEW Following the results of different researches [Pierrehumbert & Beckman, 1988; Pierrehumbert, 1980; Selkirk, 1978, 1986, 1995, 2005; Nespor & Vogel, 1986; Gussenhoven, Дискурс профессиональной коммуникации No2-2, 2020
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