TY - JOUR
T1 - Introducing the Volume of Extremity (VoX) method to integrate prosodic data into discourse analysis
AU - Silber-Varod, Vered
AU - Lerner, Anat
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2023/3
Y1 - 2023/3
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Acoustic features
KW - Communication behavior
KW - Discourse analysis
KW - Political interviews
KW - Prosodic features
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85146456529&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.langcom.2022.12.005
DO - 10.1016/j.langcom.2022.12.005
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AN - SCOPUS:85146456529
SN - 0271-5309
VL - 89
SP - 42
EP - 62
JO - Language and Communication
JF - Language and Communication
ER -