Аннотация:the auditory identification of oral public prosody peculiarities by listeners. Perhaps more important is that it includes last experimental researches on the domain of oral communication regarding public discourses, lectures, reports, Skype-dialogs etc. in real situations, real time, and in Internet. The article involves a description of the experimental research of some pragmaphonetic constituent elements of the academic genre of oral scientific discourse lecture) in German. On the basis of an experiment, relevant prosodic features of speech production and speech perception processes are determined with reference to spoken German scientific discourse considering the correlation between its structural composition and semantics. There are measurable acoustic and auditory differences between the phonoitems occurring in lectures and the prosodic structure of the given oral academic genre. The prosody has an important discourse organizing function in this genre.