Stylistic Phonetics Outline 1 2 3 4

Stylistic Phonetics

Outline 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Theory of Sound Apperception Onomatopoeia Alliteration Assonance Paronomasia Euphony and Cacophony Graphons

Theory of Sound Phoneme Functions Associative Sound-instrumenting Apperception – evaluation of phonetic phenomena of a foreign language from the point of view of one’s mother tongue.

Onomatopoeia • Onomatopoeia (sound imitation) - the use of words whose sounds imitate those of nature, man, inanimate objects. • Onomatopoeia • Direct: hiss, bowwow, bump, bang • Indirect: grumble, rattle, murmur

Alliteration is repetition of consonants, usually in the beginning of words. Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Now or never As dead as a doornail

Assonance is repetition of similar vowels in stressed syllables. Some say the world will end in fire Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire…

Euphony and Cacophony The effect of euphony is a sense of ease and comfort in pronouncing and hearing. The effect of cacophony is a sense of strain and discomfort in pronouncing and hearing.

Graphons Graphon is intentional violation of the graphical shape of a word (or a word combination) to reflect its authentic pronunciation. Graphons, indicating carelessness or irregularities of pronunciation were introduced into English novels in the early XVIII century.

Functions of Graphons Individual peculiarities of pronunciation Thith a bad pieth of bithneth. Accent (foreign, dialectal) If yu has hairy arms an’ a hairy breas’ dat mean yu gonna be rich. -’oo’? - ‘oo’. - A’’ ‘oo’?

Functions of Graphons NO! (capitalization) Im-poss-ible! (hyphenation) Aaaaapppeeenneewwweeeeeeaaaarrr!!! (multyplication)

Use of Graphons • In newspaper texts to show colloquial speech: gonna, gotta, willya • In advertisements: Pik-kwik Store, BBQ, Knee-hi socks In literary texts: “ The b-b-b—bas-tud – he seen me c-c-c-coming. ” In charts and SMS: ?