Yumrukuz А. А.
Key words: prosody, speech act of consent, consent-react, consent-accept, consent-verification, English dialogical business discourse.
The article is focused on the prosody of the speech act of consent in the English dialogical business-discourse which is analyzed in accordance with the speaker’s communicative intentions — orientation to the performance of a certain action (consent-react), consent to the interlocutor’s opinion (consent-accept), or verification of the factual information (consent-verification). As the result of instrumental study the common and differentiating for all types of consent prosodic features are determined; among the latest are: the level of Fo, intrasyllabic interval, range of Fo, level and interval of intensity, average syllable duration, duration of pauses.