The Opposition of Phonostylistic Invariant Characteristics of Informational Descriptive Monologue

Phonostylistic characteristics	Varieties of the language
Reading	Speaking
Timber	impartial, dispassionate, reserved resonant	dispassionate, businesslike, reserved, occasionally interested
Delimitation	phonopassages — phrases — intonation groups; pauses are mostly at syntactical junctures normally of medium length, but for the end of the passage	phonopassages — phrases — intonation groups; a number of hesitation and breath-taking pauses (filled and non-filled) breaks phrases into a great number of intonation groups, destroying their syntactical structure
Other style-marking proso-dic features	Loudness	normal (piano) throughout the text, varied at the phonopassage boundaries	normal (piano), contrastive at the boundaries, decrease towards the end of the passage; increase on semantic centres
Levels and ranges	decrease of levels and ranges within the passage	decrease of levels and ranges within the passage; various ranges and levels bind together several sequences into a larger unit
Rate	normal (moderate) or slow, not variable	variable; allegro on interpolations, lento on emphatic centres
Pauses	not greatly varied, mostly syntactical, occasionally emphatic	varied; the length depends on the syntactical and semantic value of the segment, the maximum length being at the passage boundaries
Rhythm X	systematic, properly organized, isochronic, decentralized accentuation	non-systematic, subjective isochrony, centralized stress distribution, the rhythmicality within the passage is achieved by the alternation of all prosodic features
Accentuation of semantic centres	Terminal tones	common use of final categoric falls; in non-final segments mid-level and low rising tones are quite common	common use of final categoric falls on semantic centres, non-final falls, mid-level and rising tones in non-final intonation groups. The emphasis is achieved by the use of high falls (very abrupt for a male voice)
Pre-nudear patterns	common use of falling and level heads or several falls within one interpausal unit	varied; common use of level heads with one accentuated pre-nuclear syllable; descending falling heads are broken by the "accidental rise"
The contrast between accented and unaccented segments	not great	great, achieved by the centralized stress pattern; increase of loudness, levels and ranges on semantic Centres; high categoric falls, emphatic stress on them and other variations of different prosodic characteristics

Now by way of conclusion we would advise future teachers of English to drift from the traditional, non-stylistic approach to the language teaching in their future practical work and pay special attention to the differences between the two varieties of the language.

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