arieties (informational, scientific, publicistic and artistic (theatrical speech)). He puts forward an important idea: "Stylistically, intonation retains its relative autonomy and depends not so much on the verbal aspect of speech as on the kind of speech situation, aim of communication chosen by the speaker. <...> A fragment from a belles-lettres style text, read at the academic lecture, is intonated according to the norms of the informational or the academic styles. "LK Tseplitis findings are proved by the research carried out by JS Lebedeva and G.P. Kashkorova, who studied the types of intonational coloring of the text resulting from the speaker s strategy . prefer to use TV Medvedeva s classification of phonetic styles and would further resort to it when defining the place of the popular science text in the range of other variations.
1.5 Phonetic styles classification. Popular science text
variations of phonetic styles are based on the typical speech situations. As far as prepared speech is concerned, there are several factors that distinguish these speech situations: audiencesettingpurpose of speechthe setting can determine the degree of formality of the communication; the target audience determines the content, style and the tone of speech. According to the purpose set by the speaker texts belonging to different speech styles can be aimed: inspire or to motivateteachimpart informationexplore or to debate ideasentertainmajority of them, however, may include a combination of several purposes.far the spontaneous speech is concerned, it is in most cases a face-to-face interaction between two or several people. It also provides a variety of aims and situations, and the most common forms (or types) are these: answer interaction (interview) (small talk, discussion) (dispute) of them has communication cooperation as its underlying principle, its vehicle and a guarantee for successful communication. science text is one of the variations of prepared speech, it belongs to the neutral style of pronunciation. It combines some features that are characteristic of its co-variations: it gives factual information like the news-reading, but demands a higher degree of expressiveness to involve the listeners; it uses various manipulation techniques like the publicistic style text, but they are meant to improve the perception of information, and not to impose a certain point of view.
1.6 Features of popular science texts
T.V. Medvedeva classifies a popular science text as belonging to a publicistic phonetic style. She compares it with new...
