Phonetic Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices

Abstract

Research aim is the stylistic approach to the utterance is not confined to its structure and sense. There is another thing to be taken into account which, in a certain type of communication, viz. ”belles-lettres”, plays an important role. This is the way a word, a phrase or a sentence sounds. The sound of most words taken separately will have little or no aesthetic value. It is in combination with other words that a word may acquire a desired phonetic effect. The way a separate word sounds may produce a certain euphonic impression, but this is a matter of individual perception and feeling and therefore subjective. For instance, a certain English writer expresses the opinion that ‘’angina’’, ‘’pneumonia’’ and ‘’uvula’’ would make beautiful girl’s names instead of what he calls ‘’lumps of names like Joan, Joyce and Maud’’, in the poem “Cargoes” by John Masefield. The research aim also is that what is the: onomatopoeia, alliteration, rhyme and rhythm.

Onomatopoeia-  is a combination of speech sounds, which aims at imitating sound produced in nature, by thing, by people and by animal.

Alliteration- is a phonetic stylistic device which aims at imparting a melodic effect to the utterance.

Rhyme –is the repetition of identical or similar terminal sound combinations of words.

Rhythm- exists in all spheres of human activity and assumes multifarious forms.