Year 29 No. 3 (2021): Issue 3/2021
Articles

Prosodische Realisierung von Fragesätzen in den politischen Reden im deutschen Bundestag

Vincenzo Damiazzi
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Published 01/13/2022

Keywords

  • rhetorical questions,
  • German,
  • political speech,
  • intonation,
  • prosody

How to Cite

Damiazzi, V. (2022). Prosodische Realisierung von Fragesätzen in den politischen Reden im deutschen Bundestag. L’Analisi Linguistica E Letteraria, 29(3). Retrieved from https://www.analisilinguisticaeletteraria.eu/index.php/ojs/article/view/92

Abstract

Rhetorical questions (RQs) are an integral part of the plenary sessions of the Bundestag and are here analysed in their prosodic realisations. The corpus comprises 40 RQs and 55 topic-setting questions (TSQs). The prosodic analysis has been carried out using the software PRAAT and focuses on nuclear accents, boundary tones and nuclear contours. After a preliminary perceptive analysis, the following acoustic analysis was aimed at measuring and observing the variations of F0 and intensity in relation to nuclear and pre-nuclear contours.