Open AccessDistinctive Features of a Threatening Demand and Entreaty at the Fundamental Frequency Level
Author(s) -
Д.В. Грошев
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
contemporary problems of social work
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2412-5466
pISSN - 2412-527X
DOI - 10.17922/2412-5466-2021-7-1-54-60
Subject(s) - fundamental frequency , linguistics , prosody , meaning (existential) , phonology , statement (logic) , phonetics , german , psychology , directive , duration (music) , computer science , acoustics , physics , philosophy , psychotherapist , programming language
the article gives the results of an experimental and phonetic study on the prosodic differentiation at the level of the fundamental frequency of two illocutionary acts – a threatening demand and entreaty (on the material of German). It is known that prosody affects a communicative process, and depending on the nature of a prosodic structure, the meaning of a statement changes. The same lexical and grammatical corpus can act as a threat, demand, entreaty, sarcastic statement, etc. The distinctive features of these speech acts are directly influenced by the perceived prosodic features of fundamental frequency, intensity and duration. On the basis of auditory, acoustic, and mathematical and statistical analyzes, the distinctive features of the two illocutionary acts were identified at the level of the fundamental frequency. The study shows that the two illocutionary acts differ at the level of the fundamental frequency, despite the fact that they belong to the same speech act – directive. The results obtained can be used in research in the field of phonology, experimental and applied phonetics. In addition, the obtained material may be of interest to forensic experts when conducting a phonoscopic examination