CONTRASTIVE SPECIFICS OF FEMALE SPEECH IN THE POLITICAL DISCOURSE OF SPAIN, LATIN AMERICA AND UKRAINE
Journal Title: Мова - Year 2016, Vol 0, Issue 25
Abstract
This paper aims at conducting a contrastive study of the lingual and prosodic features of contemporary female political discourse in Latin America, Spain and Ukraine. The article includes an overview of theoretical approaches to the study of gender-specific female speech, analysis of the lingual and prosodic features of Hispanic and Ukrainian female political speech in the contrastive perspective. In follow-up of the analysis, we conclude that Hispanic and Ukrainian female political discourse is characterized by general emotionality of all the speeches, the use words expressing doubts, and co-speech gestures. The language material was provided by verbal presentations delivered by Hispanic female politician Cristina de Kirchner Ukrainian female politician Yulia Tymoshenko. Digital processing of emotionally colored speech fragments from speeches delivered Hispanic and Ukrainian female politicians was carried out using PRAAT 5.0.43, Sound Forge 9.0, and VirtualDub1.6.15 software.
Authors and Affiliations
Valeria A. CHERNYAKOVA
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