The Style and Timbre of English Speech and Literature

Redefining Neutrality in Language and Discourse

“…Every new element of speech will be added to this hierarchical map in keeping with the rule of reference where the semiotic trigger will define the position and the relative weight of elements in a speech event. But this may suddenly change the moment a new such trigger appears when the whole hierarchical map will have to be redrawn (Konurbaev 2015).…”

“…When the reading exercise is over the reader will involuntarily attempt to shape the whole on the basis of such peaks of attention where the tempo was slow, the rhythm clear and regular and internal articulation -most distinct. As a result, the hearing effect was most ostensible, which in its turn served as a powerful impetus in the cognitive processes where the elements of speech are being actively compared to each other, weighted and arranged into a mental scheme (Konurbaev 2015). Without these processes there is hardly any cognitive process possible.…”

“…Neutral, culturally unrelated vocabulary molds new timbres relatively easily when united by an allegory or symbol, but may completely impoverish the narration with the lack of a strong timbre token forming a recognizable image. Konurbaev (2015) shows that in any kind of writing all words pass a test of prominence: each lexical element introduced in the writing must become either the backdrop or the foreground in the text. Tertium non datur.…”

“…Lexical neutrality is a good basis for unconstrained narration in the press. The reason is the freedom of combinability where each neutral word is relatively unrestricted to form very clear and recurrent word-combinations and phrases (Konurbaev 2015). As a result, the story unwinds easily with very few places to slow down.…”

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“…The tendency concerns different spheres of communication represented in the analyzed corpora. In Contemporary American English Corpus (COCA), that comprises different genres of spoken and written texts' samples from the year of 1990 till 2017, the word Californication shows not frequent occurrence (42) with the tendency to grow in number.…”