Published 01/13/2022
Keywords
- rhetorical questions,
- German,
- political speech,
- intonation,
- prosody
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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.