The major task of this book is a sociophonetic exploration of voice pitch characteristics of speakers across the cultures of Japan and America. This volume makes a cogent argument for the socio-cultural role of voice pitch in the expression of emotion and politeness and how culture and gender can intersect with each other. The book tenders acoustic phonetic evidence (as well as discourse analyses) in construing how an individual's voice pitch modulation utilized in conversational speech is reflected in this intersection as it demonstrates several methodological innovations crucial for sociophonetic research. Observations of people's voice pitch commonly made impressionistically not only contribute to this prosodic feature's perceptual stereotypes, but also inform us about our attitudes towards certain voice pitch characteristics. This volume includes an extensive review of these impressionistic remarks and acoustic phonetic investigations of voice pitch initiated in the early 20th century in the two nations, the latter of which contributed to both confirming and reconsidering the former. The volume further alludes to how attitudinal differences between these cultures were found to surface in the acoustically measured voice pitch modulation patterns obtained for this volume, stressing that voice pitch is capable of revealing various socio-cultural aspects of human behaviors.

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Yuasa, Ikuko Patricia.

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-158) and index.

"Culture and Gender of Voice Pitch provides a sociophonetic exploration of the voice pitch characteristics of speakers across the cultures of Japan and America. It makes a cogent argument for the socio-cultural role of voice pitch in the expression of emotion and politeness and how culture and gender can intersect with each other. This volume tenders acoustic phonetic evidence (as well as discourse analyses) in construing how an individual's voice pitch modulation utilized in conversational speech is reflected in this intersection as it demonstrates several methodological innovations crucial for sociophonetic research." "This volume includes an extensive review of these impressionistic remarks, as well as acoustic phonetic investigations of voice pitch initiated in the early twentieth century in both nations, the latter of which contributed to both confirming and reconsidering the former. The volume also alludes to how attitudinal differences between these cultures were found to surface in the acoustically measured voice pitch modulation patterns obtained for this volume, stressing that voice pitch is capable of revealing various socio-cultural aspects of human behaviors."--Pg.4 of cover

Cover
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Notes on transcription of Japanese
Introduction
Pitch
Physical differences between male and female larynges and voice pitch
Cultural differences between men’s and women’s voice pitch
Impressionistic observations of voice pitch
Acoustic analyses of voice pitch
Voice pitch and emotion
Voice pitch and politeness
Voice pitch, politeness and gender
Notes
Chapter 1
Novels
Etiquette Books/Handbooks
Impressionistic Comments by Scholars
Notes
Chapter 2
Early Analyses
More Recent Analyses
Voice Pitch and Emotion Research
Notes
Chapter 3
Studies Using Passages and Constructed Dialogues Read by Informants
Study Analyzing Speech Derived from Task-completion by Informants
Studies Utilizing Conversational Speech Data
Notes
Chapter 4
Expression of Emotion
Cross-cultural Research on Universality of Emotional Expression
Cross-cultural Research on Emotion and Japan
Japanese Psychology (of Amae and Enryo)
Emotion and Intonation (Pitch Modulation)
Notes
Chapter 5
Politeness
Politeness, Expression of Emotion and Voice Pitch for Japanese People: My Findings
Gender, Voice Pitch and Politeness: My Findings
Notes
Chapter 6
References
Index

Presents a sociophonetic exploration of voice pitch characteristics of speakers across the cultures of Japan and America. This title makes a cogent argument for the socio-cultural role of voice pitch in the expression of emotion and politeness and how culture and gender can intersect with each other.

Ikuko Patricia Yuasa. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [145]-158) And Index.

2024-10-29