The subject of the study is the oral actualization of English prosaic folklore texts of the small form (SFFT). Structural, emotional, pragmatic and cognitive factors that determine the regularity of the prosodic organization of English prosaic SFFTs having different pragmatic orientations constitute the scope of the research. The scientific research objective is to define prosodic features of English small form folk texts' oral actualization influenced by structural, communicative, cognitive and energetic factors, which are defined within the framework of a new functional-and-energetic approach to the research of phonetic phenomena. The research methodology is based on the principle of anthropocentrism, oriented towards a synergistic plane of studying the individual's speech activity; communicative and cognitive-and-discursive approaches; theoretical principles of phonetics and phonology; the principle of conserving the utterance emotional-and-pragmatic potential. The comprehensive methodological procedures of the scientific research include general scientific (abstracting, generalization, formalization), empiric-and-theoretic (analysis, synthesis, comparison, idealization) and special (semantic, auditory and acoustic analyses) methods as well as methods of quantitative, synergetic and energy analyses. The scientific novelty of the obtained results lies in developing a functional-and-energetic approach; modelling the psycho-energetic processes underlying the speaker's choice of prosodic means that actualize English folklore texts; experimental ascertainment of energygrams typical of the analyzed texts; modelling of their conceptual space as well as substantiating the method of studying the subliminal influence of the English folk texts' prosodic organization on the recipient. The theoretical significance of the thesis is determined by substantiation of a new functional-and-energetic approach to the study of phonetic phenomena that allows one to define the impact of structural, emotional, pragmatic and cognitive factors on the text prosodic organization as well as makes a contribution to the further development of phonetics, lingual synergetics, cognitive phonetics, cognitive linguistics and text theory studies. The practical value of the obtained results lies in the possibility to apply them in teaching theoretical ("The language phonological system", "Supra-segmental language level", "Phonostylistics") and practical phonetics of English ("Intonation structure of the text"), general linguistics ("Non-verbal means of communication", "Language and intercultural communication"), text linguistics ("Language means actualizing the text"), theoretical grammar ("Pragmatics of the sentence"), literary text interpretation ("Composition and plot of a literary text") as well as in optional courses in prosodic organization of the texts of various genres.
