2011 -2012, 3 rd year, Odintsovo

2011 -2012, 3 rd year, Odintsovo Institute, Alieva K.

Conversational Style

The most commonly used type of intonation style. Can also be called ‘ familiar ’, as it is best known to all English-speakers; or ‘ informal ’

Conversational style is used for everyday communication and is heard in natural conversational interactions. It mainly occurs in informal situations between well-acquainted people.

It is classified as spontaneous , colloquial and informal.

Linguistic features: -1 — Strong relation of extralinguistic factors -2 — Unpredictable, unplanned -3 — Non-fluent

Grammatical features: -1 — Lots of compound sentences introduced by “You see…”, “I mean…”, etc. -2 — Frequent use of interrogative sentences -3 — Rare use of Imperative sentences

-4 — Common use of vocatives -5 — Rare use of nominal groups (personal pronouns instead) -6 — Lots of question tags -7 — Lots of repetition -8 — Occurrence of contrasted verbal forms (I’ve. He’s, etc. ) -9 — Lots of colloquial ellipses.

Prosodic features ( Prosodic – having do with intonation and pronunciation of stressed and unstressed syllables)

-1 — Conversations fall into coordinated blocks , consisting of suprasegmental and supraphrasal units

-2 — Due to lack of emotion range and depth restrictions, and entire range of effects is available

-3 — Intonation groups are rather short , and tend to be broken in structure (decentralized stress, sudden intonation changes)

-4 — Heads used – mostly Level , sometimes Falling

-5 — Falling and rising tones common for nuclei ; high pre-nuclear syllables are frequent

-6 — Extremely varied tempo ; pauses may occur at random

-7 — Interpausal stretches lead to rhythmic isochrony

-1 — Conversations fall into coordinated blocks , consisting of suprasegmental and supraphrasal units -2 — Due to lack of emotion range and depth restrictions, and entire range of effects is available -3 — Intonation groups are rather short , and tend to be broken in structure (decentralized stress, sudden intonation changes)

-4 — Heads used – mostly Level , sometimes Falling -5 — Falling and rising tones common for nuclei; high pre-nuclear syllables are frequent -6 — Extremely varied tempo ; pauses may occur at random -7 — Interpausal stretches lead to rhythmic isochrony

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2011 -2012, 3 rd year, Odintsovo Institute, Alieva K.