@article{Freydina_2015, title={Prosodic Variation in Academic Public Presentations}, volume={1}, url={https://jle.hse.ru/article/view/1393}, DOI={10.17323/2411-7390-2015-1-2-13-19}, abstractNote={<div>The&nbsp;article reports on&nbsp;a&nbsp;study of&nbsp;the prosodic characteristics of&nbsp;academic public presentations. Prosodic variation is analysed with regard to&nbsp;the social and cultural context which is significant for&nbsp;the adequate description of&nbsp;discourse prosody. The&nbsp;paper draws on&nbsp;the&nbsp;findings made in&nbsp;the course of&nbsp;the analysis (auditory and acoustic) of&nbsp;presentations delivered by British lecturers. The&nbsp;article contains an&nbsp;overview of&nbsp;contextual factors and discourse strategies used in&nbsp;academic presentations. Special focus is given to&nbsp;prosodic variations in&nbsp;spoken discourse determined by the&nbsp;extralinguistic context. The&nbsp;author argues that that the&nbsp;choice of&nbsp;prosodic means depends on&nbsp;a&nbsp;variety of&nbsp;contextual parameters: speaker-audience relationships (reflected in&nbsp;the tenor of&nbsp;discourse), the&nbsp;speaker’s rhetorical competence, method of&nbsp;delivery, rhetorical tradition and others. The&nbsp;observations made in&nbsp;the paper may be useful to&nbsp;develop expertise in&nbsp;the delivery of&nbsp;academic public presentations which is an&nbsp;important aspect of&nbsp;EFL teachers’ professional training.</div&gt;}, number={2}, journal={Journal of Language and Education}, author={Freydina, Elena}, year={2015}, month={Jun.}, pages={13-19} }