Academic style

Academic style by Tania Zaveriuha

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Basic notions

Characteristics

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Basic notions about academic styke

General Information

It is used in lectures, scientific discussions, conferences Its purpose is to inform, to win the attention and interest of the public, to establish a contact with the audience. As it is an intellectual and volitional type of speech (the speaker appeals to the intellect and will of the listener) it requires some emotional colouring. It is achieved by varying prosodic features

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Characteristics of the academic style

tends to be objective and precise, it is not entirely unemotional and devoid of any individuality. Scientific intonation style is used by university lecturers, schoolteachers, or by scientists in formal and informal discussions.

Characteristics

Intellectual and volitional ( or disiderative) Main purpose: do drow attention of the audience as a result, deliver message

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Prosodic features

Features

-basic intonation patterns are as follows: Law Pre-Head + Stepping Head (High Level Head) + Law Fall (High Fall, Law Rise). - rather high loudness; - a large proportion of pauses that serve to bring out semantic centres; - normal or relatively slow speed -systematic and properly organized rhythm.

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Features

Attention is focused on a lecture on a scientific subject and reading aloud a piece of scientific prose. In speech, variations and contrasts in the speed of utterance are indicative of the degree of importance attached to different parts of speech flow. Less important parts are pronounced at greater speed than usual, while more important parts are characterised by slower speed. Pausation is not always semantically predictable. Some pauses, made by the speaker, may be explicable in terms of hesitation phenomena denoting forgetfulness or uncertainty (eg. Word-searching). The most widely used hesitation phenomena here are repetition of words and filled pauses. Intentional use of these effects enables the lecture to obtain a balance between formality and informality.

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Features

Reading scientific prose is characteristic by contrastive rhythmic patterns (arhythmic utterance). Pauses are predominantly short, their placement and are always semantically or syntactically predictable. Hesitation pauses are to be avoided.

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