Abstract:
The purpose of the work is a determination and analysis of prosodic means
conveying influence in public discourse.
To achieve this goal, there is a need to consider the following tasks:
- to outline the general characteristics of public discourse;
- to determine the essence of the influence phenomenon in linguistics;
- to analyse the intonational features of the English utterances conveying influence;
- to develop the programme and methodology of the research;
- to establish the invariant and variable features of prosodic actualization of
influence in English public discourse.
