ABOUT PHONETIC MEANS INDIVIDUALIZATION OF CHARACTER’S SPEECH IN THE EYES EARLY CHEKHOV’S PROSE
The article on the fiction reading early prose of A.P. Chekhov presents the results of a study of phonetic means used by the actors for the individualization of the speech of the characters. We found that the performance of Chekhov’s early prose as a phonetic means of creating sound portraits of characters used voice register, intonation and articulatory characteristics of sounds. The functions of phonetic means including related delimitation and characterological function. Determined that delimitation feature is the ability to distinguish between the voice of the party the author and the characters in sounding literary text. It is shown that this feature is peculiar to such means as a register. The essence of the characteristic functions related to the selection in the audio portrait of the character, the dominant traits or complex traits. Found that using usually register the passed age and gender parameters of the speech of heroes, intonation is used for marking individual dominant mental properties of the characters, articulatory characteristics of sounds are used to detail the social and personal parameters in the speech portrait of the hero, transmit its physical and emotional state. Discovered that when reading Chekhov’s early prose the voices of the characters sound not only in dialogues, but in the author’s narrative.