It is also called

artistic

stage

It is a highly emotional and expressive

style, which needs special training.

This phonetic style is used

on the stage

in films

in prose

poetry recitations

Conversations on the stage

Conversations on the stage are generally meant to
reflect natural speech interaction, but, addressed
to the spectators, they produce an exaggerated
effect: due to such prosodic parameters as
loudness, rate and range that are
immediately identified by listeners as "stage
speech" characteristics

The prosodic organization of such will vary greatly,

depending
on the type of the theatrical performance
a tragedy

comedy

drama the style of the author

on the social factors

extralinguistic context
the social and cultural background of
the play characters

Narrative
Prose, which describes an action or a series of actions to
tell a story, is called narrative:
On ordinary days she was only allowed to play with
children of her own rank, so she had always to play
alone, but her birthday was an exception, and the King
had given orders that she was to invite any of her
young friends whom she liked to come and amuse
themselves with her.
Oscar Wilde The Birthday of the Infanta

Descriptive prose
The prose is descriptive when scenes, objects, people, or
even a person's feelings are described in such a way that we
can imagine them vividly.
He had a dreamy, far-away look in his eyes, and his sad,

insistent voice, gentle-spoken as a maid's, seemed the

placid embodiment of some deep-seated melancholy. He
was the Leopard Man, but he did not look it.
Jack London The Leopard mans story

The way scenes and people are described, the way the
characters think, talk or act are as important as the events
themselves and contribute largely to our enjoyment.

The reader usually takes into account all he/she knows of

the environment:
what is going on
who is involved
what part the language plays

Dialogues
Dialogues are author's reproduction of actual conversation and in
reading aloud a reader should bear in mind the characters of the
speakers, their social background and the atmosphere, the
environment, in which the conversation takes place.
"Perhaps the grass in the other field is better," suggested the aunt
fatuously.
"Why is it better?" came the swift, inevitable question.
"Oh, look at those cows!" exclaimed the aunt. Nearly every field
along the line had contained cows or bullocks, but she spoke as
though she were drawing attention to a rarity.
"Why is the grass in the other field better?" persisted Cyril .
Hector Hugh Munro The story-teller

Prosodic organization depends

on the type of the literary text - descriptive, narrative, dialogue;
on the character of the described events, schemes and objects
(humorous, tragic, romantic, dreamy, imaginative
and so on)
on the skills of the reader
But it is always clearly marked by its
expressiveness
personal involvement on the part of the author
emphasis, by the entire range of prosodic and paralinguistic effects
it is all felt through skilful reading

On the prosodic level the markers of the declamatory style reading

are:
1. Slow tempo, caused by the lento rate of utterances and prolonged
pauses, especially at the passage boundaries.
2. Stable rhythmicality.
3. The use of the falling terminal tones in initial intonation groups, the
increase of their range with the emphasis.

One day that Tom Walker had been to a distant part of the
neighborhood, he took what he considered a short cut homeward,
through the swamp. Like most short cuts, it was an ill-chosen
route. The swamp was thickly grown with great gloomy pines
and hemlocks, some of them ninety feet high, which made it dark
at noonday, and a retreat for all the owls of the neighborhood.
Washing Irving The Devil and Tom Walker

Language teachers should pay a great deal of attention to expressive

declamatory reading as it helps students to understand and
appreciate literature, broadens their horizons.
Artistic reading can show them :
the subtleties of the author's intention
unlock his secrets
pave the way to something new, something different.

Thank you for attention !