SPEECH PROFILES IN CONTEMPORARY BULGARIAN SPOKEN DISCOURSE

Abstract

Speech activity represents a conglomeration of specific features of the person which manifest themselves in the flow of speech through our anthropophonic features, pronunciation habits, and the way we think and speak. The speech profiles are presented as verbal, paraverbal and extraverbal components which are studied in the field of applied sociophonetics. The article discusses iconic representations of speech as online performance in the sphere of standard, substandard and nonstandard contemporary Bulgarian pronunciation, signaled by a combination of different prosodic features manifested in specific aural images.