Tendencies in Contemporary Received Pronunciation (by the Example of Oratorical Speech of Women - Participants of the British Media Discourse)
Journal: Philology Theory & Practice
Year: 2021

The paper aims to reveal tendencies in contemporary Received Pronunciation (full style, official form) by the example of prepared monologic utterances of women at the age of 25-30. Scientific originality of the study involves identifying phono-stylistic peculiarities of oratorical speech of the British women as potential bearers of the contemporary linguistic norm. The author provides a statistical analysis of vowel variation in the informants’ speech within the mass media discourse, which contr