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The article is devoted to intonational patterns of the speech of modern Australian business environment (businessmen, economists) representatives and the dependence of intonation on social characteristics of communicants. In our opinion, this issue is one of important directions of modern linguistics. The target audience of economic discourse has a particular impact on the tonal composition of language. The material of the study included several sources, containing samples of natural speech representing interview ...

The article is focused on studying phonetic peculiarities of economic discourse of New Zealand English. The topic seems to be understudied and is extremely important due to the special status of this national variety of the English language: the progress of its pronunciation system was highly influenced by a number of extralinguistic factors – historic, cultural, territorial, socio-economic and socio-political. The issues of phonetic, intonational and prosodic arrangement of speech in the framework of business c...

One of the main aims of economic professional discourse is to achieve the goals set by business circles, financial institutions, banks and other economic organisations. The range of verbal means fulfilling these goals is an object of thorough analysis of sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, pragmatics and discourse studies. In this context the sphere of prosody is of special interest for linguistic research, as, according to researchers, around 30% of information is transmitted with the help of intonation. The pur...

The issues of English intonation patterns are a significant part of phoneticiansВ’ research. However, much in this field remains a matter of considerable debate. This can be largely attributed to the multifunctional nature of intonation, as well as the complex emotional and volitional aspects involved. Prosodic arrangement of business speech is a separate topical research issue. The speech of business people is typically characterised by some specific features, including intonation peculiarities, and reflects the ...