The inadequate pauses in the speech of the actors in the series Voynata na bukvite

The present study marks and analyses atypical uses of pauses in the speech of the actors in the War of the Letters TV series. The focus is on the positions in the syntactic organization of sentences where pauses appear in their realization as utterances. Taking into account the non-spontaneous nature of speech in the studied discourse, it is assumed that they are integral to the adopted communicative strategies. The question is raised to what extent these pauses are effective and whether they have already evolved into typical “violations” of the generally accepted rules of using intonation pauses.