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【Abstract】Phonological features contribute to stylistic analysis from such perspectives as pitch， length， loudness， stress， rhythm， intonation， tone， pause， tempo. This paper takes a comparative analysis of two different versions of audio form， aiming to illustrate the different features and techniques in portraying the vivid characters in two different audio versions.
【Key words】phonological features； portraying characters
【作者簡介】黄莹颖（1993.06- ），女，汉族，湖北襄阳人，西安电子科技大学外国语学院，2016级在校研究生，研究方向：心理语言学。
I. Introduction
Phonological levels in stylistics originates from Leech， whose book A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry probes into verbal repetition， formal repetition， patterns of sound and metre （Leech， 1969）. In Introduction to Stylistics， the Phonological theory evolved from Prosody， mainly studying suprasegmental features and essential characteristics of rhythm in modern linguistics， which could be called phonological features（Liu， 2006）. Therefore， the Phonological theory is the research on the phonological features of a literary text. The phonological features can be analyzed from four aspects： phoneme， syllable， rhyme， tone（Zhang， 1998）.
The texts chosen for analysis in this paper are from the book pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen， noted for its fluency and witty language. With simple language and conversational dialogues， the pictures of characters are vividly depicted and everyone comes alive by displaying the trivial incidents of the everyday life.
II. Background of audio texts
Pride and Prejudice contains one of the most cherished love stories in English literature： the courtship between a rich， proud young man Fitzwilliam Darcy and the beautiful and intelligent Elizabeth Bennet. The development of whole stories has close relationship with the warping effects of hierarchical society.
Mr. Bennet， the patriarch of the Bennet family， a gentleman of modest income with five unmarried daughters. He has a sarcastic， cynical sense of humor that he uses to purposefully irritate his wife. He is skeptical of conventional marriage and has no good words for his beautiful daughters except Elizabeth， preferring to withdraw from the never-ending marriage concerns of the women around him rather than offer help. Mrs. Bennet， a foolish， noisy， emptyheaded， snobbish and vulgar woman whose only goal in life is to marry her five daughters to rich， handsome young man. Because of her low breeding and often unbecoming behaviors， Mrs. Bennet often repels the very suitors whom she tries to attract for her daughters.
【Key words】phonological features； portraying characters
【作者簡介】黄莹颖（1993.06- ），女，汉族，湖北襄阳人，西安电子科技大学外国语学院，2016级在校研究生，研究方向：心理语言学。
I. Introduction
Phonological levels in stylistics originates from Leech， whose book A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry probes into verbal repetition， formal repetition， patterns of sound and metre （Leech， 1969）. In Introduction to Stylistics， the Phonological theory evolved from Prosody， mainly studying suprasegmental features and essential characteristics of rhythm in modern linguistics， which could be called phonological features（Liu， 2006）. Therefore， the Phonological theory is the research on the phonological features of a literary text. The phonological features can be analyzed from four aspects： phoneme， syllable， rhyme， tone（Zhang， 1998）.
The texts chosen for analysis in this paper are from the book pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen， noted for its fluency and witty language. With simple language and conversational dialogues， the pictures of characters are vividly depicted and everyone comes alive by displaying the trivial incidents of the everyday life.
II. Background of audio texts
Pride and Prejudice contains one of the most cherished love stories in English literature： the courtship between a rich， proud young man Fitzwilliam Darcy and the beautiful and intelligent Elizabeth Bennet. The development of whole stories has close relationship with the warping effects of hierarchical society.
Mr. Bennet， the patriarch of the Bennet family， a gentleman of modest income with five unmarried daughters. He has a sarcastic， cynical sense of humor that he uses to purposefully irritate his wife. He is skeptical of conventional marriage and has no good words for his beautiful daughters except Elizabeth， preferring to withdraw from the never-ending marriage concerns of the women around him rather than offer help. Mrs. Bennet， a foolish， noisy， emptyheaded， snobbish and vulgar woman whose only goal in life is to marry her five daughters to rich， handsome young man. Because of her low breeding and often unbecoming behaviors， Mrs. Bennet often repels the very suitors whom she tries to attract for her daughters.