Declamatory Style

Declamatory Style

Made by: Yuliana Filatova

This is a highly emotional and expressive intonational style, that is why it needs special training. Attitudinal, volitional and intellectual functions of intonation are of primary importance here and serve to appeal to the mind, will and feelings of the listener. This style can be heard on the stage, on the screen, in a TV studio, thus we see that it is always a written form of the language read aloud or recited.

style of declamation

Declamatory Style - "artistic, acquired or stage"

The prosodic organization of such texts will vary greatly, depending on the type of the theatrical performance — whether it is a tragedy, drama or comedy — and, of course, on the social factors — the social and cultural background of the play characters, their relationship, extralinguistic context, and so on. Acting is a two-way conversation, players respond very directly and promptly to the "feedback" they get from the audience; the "feedback" in their case being almost certainly communal, collective, non-verbal language. Methods of achieving, stimulating and maintaining this "conversation" with their audience must inevitably be the mainspring of the actors' "training".

Declamatory style texts

Declamatory

Phonostylistic characteristics

Loudness varied according to the size of the audience and to the emotional setting

Pauses are long especially between the passages, prolonged emphatic pauses are used to underline the emphasis

Rhythm is properly organized

Common use of categoric low and high falls in final and initial intination groups and on semantic centres

The declamatory reading

It displays a great variety of intonation property as regards to the types of written texts. There is almost endless variety in the way writers express themselves; but no matter how pleasurable the way of writing may be, meaning always comes first. In each case style, the way something has been written, must be adapted to suit the subject matter.

On the prosodic level the markers of the declamatory style reading are:

Stable rhythmicality

Slow tempo, caused by the lento rate of utterances and prolonged pauses, especially at the passage boundaries

The use of the falling terminal tones in initial intonation groups, the increase of their range with the emphasis

take into account

the character's social and educational background.

the playwright's remark, and stage directions in drama.

the kind of relationship existing between the characters

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