Discourse prosody and political speech in Greek
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2012/05/0010/000216Keywords:
discourse, prosody, intonation, political speech, GreekAbstract
This is a study of the prosodic characteristics of discourse, based on the analysis of a TV interview of a Greek politician. Temporal and tonal features were examined. It is shown that breaks and pauses cut up sentences into smaller chunks, which reflect semantic and discourse functions rather than syntactic structures. The politician did not use rising tonal structures at phrase boundaries in most cases, deviating from an average speaker. The issue of how professional public speakers differentiate their use of prosodic means by adopting more stereotyped patterns is, thus, raised.
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