Word Accentuation as a Organizing Factor in Oral Scientific Text

The article studies the patterns of word accentuation in oral public (scientific) speech, i.e. the connection of a strong prosodic accentuation of a word with its semantic properties in context. The scientific significance of this study is determined by the need to analyze such important issues for modern linguistics as the correlation of the prosodic emphasis of the word with its semantics, communicative load and context features. The purpose of the study is to establish the composition of the most frequently accentuated Russian words and to qualify their semantic and discursive properties in oral scientific monologue. The material of the study is the tape recording of a spoken scientific speech, represented by the genres of lectures, reports and speeches at conferences, symposiums, scientific seminars, discussions. The investigated corpus of oral scientific texts was processed by the method of auditory analysis, combined with data from the contextual-semantic analysis and methods of quantitative and statistical evaluation of the accentuation of the word in the flow of speech. In the article the idea of the cognitive-semantic nature of accentuation of a word as one of the ways of functioning of a word in the associative-verbal network of the native speaker of the language, in its lexicon, is put forward. In this regard, the analysis of the material was aimed at the search for system-forming parameters of the relationship between the emphasis of the word and the meaning of the word in Russian oral scientific speech. The study showed that the phenomenon of accentual marking of a word is reflected in the semantic, informational (thesaurus) and motivational-pragmatic levels of the structure of the langual personality. The placement of the phrase-prosodic accents in the utterance is subject to the communicative task of the speaker and is aimed at constructing an oral scientific text as a coherent whole. Phrase-prosodic accentuation emphasizes the movement of information in the text, and, actualizing the semantic possibilities of potentially accentuated units of language, serves as an important communicative marker of the organization of the sounding text for the addressee of the message.

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