Abstract:
The aim of the study is to identify and systematise prosodic characteristics
of the certainty of public English speech.
To achieve this purpose, the following tasks need to be solved:
• to determine the place and role of prosody in conveying the semantic
potential of a confident utterance;
• to substantiate the importance of speaking with confidence in the field
of political communication;
• to systematise prosodic means typical for confident public speaking;
• to analyse speeches: select several speeches by English-speaking
politicians and analyse the prosodic devices used to express confidence.
