Abstract
This paper represents a multimodal analysis of the paraverbal (prosodic and gesture) features of expressive female political speech in Latin America and Spain. The language corpus consisted of public speeches delivered by Spanish-speaking female politicians Eva Peron, Christina de Kirchner and Manuela Carmena. The article includes an overview of theoretical approaches to female speech studies and follows current trends in modern sociolinguistics, which, on the one hand, accumulate the classical techniques (particularly, experimental methods) of studying the gender-related specifics of the oral female speech based on social standing, age and professional affiliation, and, on the other hand, reflect the latest approaches to the contrastive analysis of socio-political discourse in the “Spanish-Speaking World” (Spain and Latin America). This contributes to the study of gender, speech effect and comparative issues. We offer an audiovisual analysis method for studying voice and kinetic means of the expressive speech of female politicians in Spain and Latin America. This allows determining the ethno-specific correlates of expressiveness in a speech of female politicians at the verbal and paraverbal levels and building an updated model of female political expressiveness based on the integrity of its verbal and paraverbal categories.
Highlights
This study follows current trends in modern sociolinguistics, which, on the one hand, accumulate the classical techniques of studying the gender-related specifics of oral female speech based on social standing, age and professional affiliation, and, on the other hand, reflect the latest approaches to the contrastive analysis of socio-political discourse in the “Spanish-speaking world” (Spain and Latin America)
Conceptual correlates of female expressiveness in Spanish vs Latin American political discourse The analysis of conceptual correlates of female expressiveness in Spanish and Latin American political discourse revealed the prevalence of male concepts forming the conceptual field of “political struggle”: (1) homeland (35.9%); (2) strife (27.9%); (3) enemy (17.9%); (4) success (13.6%); (5) force (8.9%); (6) energy (2.9%), (7) courage (2.9%)
We note that such concepts as equality, female labour, rape, etc. that are related to the conceptual field of “emancipation” and are important conceptual reference points for Latin American female politicians, are not used by Spanish female politicians neither in the strict sense nor as a metaphor
Summary
This study follows current trends in modern sociolinguistics, which, on the one hand, accumulate the classical techniques (experimental methods) of studying the gender-related specifics of oral female speech based on social standing, age and professional affiliation, and, on the other hand, reflect the latest approaches to the contrastive analysis of socio-political discourse in the “Spanish-speaking world” (Spain and Latin America). This contributes to the study of gender (Anderson, 2019), speech effect (Ger. Sprechwirkungsforschung) (Sendlmeier, 2016) and comparative issues (Hock, 2009; Kayne, 2010).
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