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The article is focused on studying phonetic peculiarities of economic discourse of New Zealand English. The topic seems to be understudied and is extremely important due to the special status of this national variety of the English language: the progress of its pronunciation system was highly influenced by a number of extralinguistic factors – historic, cultural, territorial, socio-economic and socio-political. The issues of phonetic, intonational and prosodic arrangement of speech in the framework of business com...

The article is devoted to intonational patterns of the speech of modern Australian business environment (businessmen, economists) representatives and the dependence of intonation on social characteristics of communicants. In our opinion, this issue is one of important directions of modern linguistics. The target audience of economic discourse has a particular impact on the tonal composition of language. The material of the study included several sources, containing samples of natural speech representing interview ...

The foreign students’ phonetical and graphical adaptation to Romanian is extremely difficult given they belong to some phonetical and phonological systems sometimes totally different from the Latin one, to which Romanian also belongs. The difficulty of adaptation resides not only at the writing level but also at the pronunciation one, uneasy for those who belong to Slavic, Arabian or Asian languages with an obvious differentiation on all language levels. Still, one must notice that due to the knowledge of English,...