Stylistic typology of discursive signs in everyday, official and stage communication: an English-Uzbek corpus-acoustic analysis
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The article examines stylistic characteristics of discursive signs in everyday, official and stage communication based on English and Uzbek material. The initial focus was vocal evidentiality in English-Uzbek reportage, but the analysis is broadened to verbal-prosodic signs that organize contact, clarification, evidential support, evaluation, deictic anchoring, pause boundaries and politeness mitigation. The corpus contains 2160 annotated units: 720 everyday fragments, 720 official messages and 720 stage utterances. The everyday block also includes a survey of 180 informants. The findings show that everyday communication is marked by contact-transition signs (29.2%), official communication by evidential formulas (30.6%), and stage communication by pause-emphatic concentration (31.3%). Uzbek material has a higher density of evaluative and deictic units, while English material more often uses evidential formulas and politeness mitigators. The proposed model treats the discursive sign as a complex stylistic configuration of language form, intonation and communicative environment.
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