TWO QUANTITATIVE-HARD COMMUNICATIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF HUMAN VOICE
Journal Title: European Journal of Business and Social Sciences - Year 2013, Vol 2, Issue 6
Abstract
The study approaches the human voice in terms of its communicative paraverbal qualities. It starts from an ideational module consisting of some preliminary assumptions. In essence, the paraverbal communication has no independent existence: it produces communicative meaning only in the wide context of verbal communication. However, we can talk about paraverbal sequential communications, where the paraverbal communication has a relative autonomy. The language (the speech) forms the system called language. In a connected mode, in an abstract plan, the internal system of the paraverbal sub-flow is called paralanguage (M. L. Knapp, F. Poyatos, J. K. Burgoon, T. O. Meservy). The research is an extended meta-analysis of the sound communicative features of the language; in it there are comparatively examined influential opinions of famous specialists of the field. We argue in favor of a triple thesis: i) the human voice has 9 identity-communicational features: fundamental frequency (Fo), vocal register, tone (height, intonation), volume, accent, diction, timbre of phonation, average verbal flow; ii) the first two traits are quantitative characteristics; they are fixed, unchangeable: they are hard communicative voice characteristics; iii) the other seven are qualitative; that are modeled within certain limits; these are soft communicative voice characteristics. In the present research, we are investigating the hard characteristics, following that in other research to examine soft characteristics.
Authors and Affiliations
Ștefan Vlăduțescu| University of Craiova (Romania), Department of Romance Languages and Communication E-mail: vladutescus@yahoo.com
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