A Phono-Pragmatic Analysis of Filled Pauses in Selected Poems by Shelley

Since a pragmatic meaning can be misinterpreted when discourse's intonation is ignored, an understanding of intonation is necessary to comprehend speech's intended meaning. While filled pauses are hesitations in spontaneous speech that are totally or partially occupied by a spoken sound, silent pauses are those in which no sound or utterance occurs. These two issues are addressed in this study: what is the pragmatic purpose of the tone type used in a selection of Shelley's poems? And how do the declaring and referring tones utilized in Shelley's poems relate to the dominance and non-dominance aspect pragmatically? Based on Brazil's (1997) discourse intonation model, it seeks to examine the various information tones in Shelley's poems with regard to the dominance/non-dominance component. The qualitative method was used in this study. The results showed that poetry uses all three forms of information tone: level, reference, and declaring. The frequency of lexicalized filled pauses was higher than that of unlexicalized ones.There were 47 instances (66.19%) of the proclaiming (fall) tone. Compared to a referring tone, a proclaiming tone has a higher pitch. This illustrates Shelley's emotional reaction to previously unidentified new information. Because it clarifies the significance of intonation through participant engagement in context, the current research is helpful to both phonology and pragmatics experts as well as foreign language learners