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Bukharova A.V. [Prosodic characteristics of emotional speech of German youth] World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies, 2023, Vol. 14, No. 2. Available at: https://sfk-mn.ru/PDF/23FLSK223.pdf (in Russian).

Prosodic characteristics of emotional speech of German youth

Bukharova Anastasia Valerievna
Linguistics University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
E-mail: av_bukharova@mail.ru
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-3917-3932

Abstract. The article deals with the implementation of emotions in the speech of German youth as a task of polymodal linguistics. It is based on one of the information codes actively used in oral communication — vocal, and the hypothesis is put forward that this code, like other nonverbal codes, is able not only to accompany verbal means of emotivity in natural language, but also has the ability to express them independently. Prosodic parameters of utterances are studied as units of the vocal code: the range and rate of change in the frequency of the main tone in the focus of utterances, modifications of the tempo of speech and dynamic characteristics, in particular, the dynamic range. An acoustic computer study was performed on the material of audio recordings of the speech of German teenagers, female and male, containing, according to the audio analysis of experts, emotive «joy». Fragments of speech of the same respondents, but without the studied emotive, were used as a reference point for comparing and evaluating the data obtained. The result of studying the implementation of emotive speech within the framework of the polymodal language code is the conclusion that there are parameters in the structure of the speech signal that transmit information about the emotional state of the speaker, regardless of the verbal composition of the studied fragment of speech. Data analysis, however, showed that the vocal channel is not a universal way of such implementation. Emotivity of speech depends on the specifics of the discourse and its participants, in particular on gender, which implies the continuation of the study of this code in correlation with others: facial expressions, gestures, body position, eye movement, etc.

Keywords: emotivity; emotivity of joy; polycoded information channel; multimodal linguistics; paralinguistics; prosody; computer speech analysis

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