Introducing the Volume of Extremity (VoX) method to integrate prosodic data into discourse analysis

Vered Silber-Varod; Anat Lerner

doi:10.1016/j.langcom.2022.12.005

Introducing the Volume of Extremity (VoX) method to integrate prosodic data into discourse analysis

Vered Silber-Varod^*, Anat Lerner

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Open University of Israel

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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
Pages (from-to)	42-62
Number of pages	21
Journal	Language and Communication
Volume	89
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2022.12.005
State	Published - Mar 2023

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Open Media and Information Lab
Open University of Israel	20184, 507761

Keywords

Acoustic features
Communication behavior
Discourse analysis
Political interviews
Prosodic features

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