Abstract. The article deals with the peculiarities of the use of falling tones in the non-emotional part of the English-language political debates, which have a rather complicated nomenclature. Falling tones are traditionally considered as prosodically unmarked and basically express the objective modality of the completion of a thought. However, the author comes to the conclusion that allotones of falling tones are used by speakers in the aspect of pragmatic function, that is, they realize the subjective modality of persuasion.
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Key words and phrases: фоностилистическая принадлежность политических дебатов, тоновый признак, высотнотональные уровни, немаркированная просодия, аллотоны нисходящих тонов, диапазон движения нисходящего тона, объективная и субъективная модальность просодии, phonostylistic characteristic of political debates, tone feature, high-tone levels, unmarked prosody, allotones of falling tones, range of falling tone, objective and subjective modality of prosody
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