I have chosen the theme “Intonation” because it is one of the most interesting things of the speech and it is very important to acquire the proper intonation.
The aim of my speech is to tell what the speech melody is and how is it connected with sentence stress and how they influence each other. Intonation is magic. It can say more than even words. Intonation can tell you about the mood and the character of the person. Each person has his own intonation. That is why already at the first meeting you can understand what kind of person is standing in front of you.
In order to feel the speaker’s mood you do not have to know the language a person speaks and it is even not obligatory to see their face – intonation of the speech will help to understand whether the speaker is angry or gentle.
Each person has his own intonation. Already during the first seconds when meeting a person we can say what kind of person he is judging by his intonation. The aim of this paper is to show how different types of tones can change the mood and the attitude of the speaker to the message.
Intonation
Intonation is one of the most, if not the most imporatant factor in communication. We know that we don’t have to understand all the different words in the sentence so that we could understand the whole meanig. The context helps us to understand the word we don’t have in our individual vocabulary. If this happens we will still understand the whole meaning of the sentence. But that’s where intonation comes in. It plays a great role in understanding things. Communication contains not only information about that what it is said, but also the attidute of the speaker and the message they are trying to send.
For example, when we lower our voice at the end of the sentence, we can say that we are doing it in order to show that we are finishing the sentence. When we speak more gentle or more rude, we want to show our emotional attitude to the listener according to the meaning of the