Khromov S.S. THE SEMIOTIC NATURE OF INTONATION
http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2014.2.15
Khromov Sergey Sergeevich
Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Linguistics and Cross-Cultural Communication, Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics, Academician of the International Academy of Sciences of Pedagogical Education ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
Abstract. The article is devoted to the main approaches to intonation analysis – the semiotic nature of intonation is discussed. The author proves the fact that intonation is a bilateral phenomenon having a content plan and an expression plan, and reveals the features of intonation as a sign: its complex character, simultaneous expression of different functions in a discourse, hierarchical character of meanings, high level of abstraction. The features of intonational sign are described in the following aspects: syntagmatic, paradigmatic and pragmatic. The author states that intonation represents an autonomous subsystem of the language manifesting both general semiotic patterns and specific rules of functioning.
Key words: intonation, sign, semiotic nature, content plan, expression plan, syntagmatics, paradigmatics, pragmatics.
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