Stylistic Analysis Of Phonetic Characteristics Of Television News Programs Announcers’ Speech

This thesis describes stylistic analysis of phonetic characteristics of televisionnews programs announcers’ speech. In the analysis we are guided by the thesis ofRussian scientists, according to which the meaning of the text is formed by theinteraction of lexical and syntactic meaning, intonation and context. We used themethod of hearing analysis, comparative analysis， as well as stylistic and statisticalmethods. The purpose of the study is to describe the intonational characteristics oftelevision news programs announcers’ speech. According to the concept of stylisticanalysis, presented in the research works of Russian scientists, we recorded a fragmentof a television news programme (playing time20minutes). We have analyzed thespecific of syntagmatic segmentation and pauses, temporal characteristics. We analyzedfour types of news: domestic political news, international news, local news,entertainment and cultural news.As shown by our analysis, domestic political news generally include two parts: theinitial part and the main part. The initial part of news reports usually consist ofhomogeneous parts of the sentence. The average length of domestic political newssyntagmas is8syllables, the basic syntagmatic segmentation dominates additionalsyntagmatic segmentation. News report key words are expressed as a raising of sound’sintensity. International, local, entertainment and cultural news, as opposed domesticpolitical news, are characterized by a variety of intonation that suggests the kind ofpersonification, when the announcer introduces the personality traits of reading thenews. The analysis found that the temporal properties of the announcer’s speech aredepend on the following factors: the average length of syntagmas, cases of fused castsyntagmas, rhythmization and individual characteristics of the reading.Comparing intonational features of Chinese and Russian announcer’s speech, wereached the following conclusions. Russian announcer’s speech belongs to informationaland journalistic phonetical style, Chinese announcer’s speech is characterized by thenarrative style. In recent years, both in Chinese and Russian announcer’s speechscientists found spoken language features. However, in Chinese announcer’s speechspoken language features relate only to the syntactic level, and their purpose is tofacilitate the news perception of the media audience. In Russian announcer’s speechspoken language features are found on the phonetic level. In the pronunciation of news Chinese announcers pay great attention to the thematic component, while for Russianannouncers news’ thematic component is not essential. In Russian announcer’s speechdifferent components of news report’s structure are opposed. Thus, as opposed to initialand main parts, the final part of the news reports can be characterized by a fractionalsyntagmatic segmentation. In Chinese announcer’s speech there is no such cleardistinction.We have also assumed that the proposed method of stylistic analysis televisionnews can be used in the practice of teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Reading thenews, not only contributes to the development of listening skills, but also improvesconversational, reading, and pronunciation skills.