Abstract
This study aims to integrate acoustic analysis into discourse analysis. We developed a method that targets the fifth and the ninety-fifth percentiles of acoustic parameters of the four prosodic dimensions: pitch (F0), power (amplitude), duration, and voice quality per each speaker. We then defined a new measure to express the Volume of Extremity (VoX) of a speaker's voice. To demonstrate the strength of our model, we analyzed two political interviews from the Israeli election campaign in 2019, one with Benjamin Netanyahu and the other with Benny Gantz. Findings suggest that the acoustically targeted utterances are meaningful to the speaker but in a complex manner.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 42-62 |
| Number of pages | 21 |
| Journal | Language and Communication |
| Volume | 89 |
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| State | Published - Mar 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We wish to thank the anonymous reviewer for valuable comments and suggestions, which greatly improved the final version of this manuscript. This work was supported by the Open Media and Information Lab at The Open University of Israel [Grant Number 20184] and by the Research Authority of The Open University of Israel grant number 507761. The authors wish to thank Prof. Tamir Tassa for suggesting the acronym VoX for our Volume of Extremity method.
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Keywords
- Acoustic features
- Communication behavior
- Discourse analysis
- Political interviews
- Prosodic features