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Prosodic Characteristics According to the Relative Status Relationship between Speaker and Listener: Based on Dialogues in a TV Drama

  • The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea
  • Abbr : 사회언어학
  • 2005, 13(2), pp.69-88
  • Publisher : The Sociolinguistic Society Of Korea
  • Research Area : Humanities > Linguistics

Kim Tae-kyung 1 Chang, Kyung hee 1

1한양대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to examine prosodic features by observing intonation patterns of the IP (intonation phrase), speech rate, and F0 range through acoustic analysis of recorded data of dialogue in a television serial drama. This study shows that the relative status relationship between speaker and listener is a crucial factor in determining different realizations of prosodic features. The falling IP boundary tones in sentence-medial position are used more frequently when a person with a higher rank speaks to a person with a lower rank in an office setting. In the case of sentence-final position, when a person with a lower rank speaks to a person with a higher rank, rising tones are frequently associated with statements, whereas falling tones are frequently associated with answers. It is also observed that temporal characteristics and F0 characteristics are significantly different according to the relational factor. One tends to speak more rapidly in a dialogue with a person who is higher in rank, and to speak more slowly in a dialogue with a person who is lower in rank. And the F0 range is larger in a dialogue between the coordinate than in other circumstances.

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