Authors: Jeffery Pittam, Jeff Pittam
ISBN-13: 9780803957503, ISBN-10: 0803957505
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date Published: July 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)
The complexity and full extent of the way voice functions communicatively in social interactions has remained unclear, although the link between voice and social and personal identity remains undeveloped--until now. The first comprehensive study of voice, Voice in Social Interaction, provides us with important insights into human social interaction. This volume brings together the many interdisciplinary perspectives on voice--from acoustic phonetics to voice pathology, from the history of vocal function to social interaction. The author concludes the book by developing a theoretical taxonomy that explains vocal function based upon a number of functional models of nonverbal communication, social psychology, linguistics, and communication studies. A unique volume, Voice in Social Interaction will be an essential supplement to graduate and/or upper-level courses in speech/voice, social psychology of language, communication of emotion, public speaking, sociolinguistics, and intergroup or interpersonal relations.
Acknowledgments | ||
1 | Introduction | 1 |
Historical Accounts of Vocal Function | 3 | |
The Study of Voice Across Academic Disciplines | 11 | |
2 | The Articulatory Account of Voice | 25 |
The Twentieth Century Articulatory Account of Voice | 25 | |
3 | The Physical Measurement of Voice | 42 |
Types of Physical Measure | 43 | |
4 | The Vocal Communication of Identity | 62 |
The Communication of Group Identity | 64 | |
The Communication of Personal Identity | 78 | |
5 | The Vocal Communication of Emotion and Attitude | 91 |
The Vocal Communication of Emotion | 91 | |
The Vocal Communication of Attitude | 101 | |
6 | Methodological Issues in the Study of Voice | 109 |
Audio Recordings | 110 | |
Constructing the Stimulus Tape | 113 | |
Naive Judgments and Questionnaire Design | 118 | |
7 | A Theoretical Framework for Vocal Function: Models of Communication | 123 |
Functional Models of Language and Speech | 125 | |
Functional Models of Nonverbal Behavior | 128 | |
Patterson's Sequential Functional Model of Nonverbal Exchange | 130 | |
Communication Accommodation Theory | 136 | |
Scherer's Functional Model of Vocal Communication | 143 | |
Communication: Intention and Conscious Awareness | 148 | |
8 | A Theoretical Framework for Vocal Function: Taxonomy and Final Thoughts | 153 |
A Taxonomy of Vocal Function | 153 | |
The Fourth Dimension: Directions for Future Research and Conclusions | 166 | |
References | 176 | |
Index | 192 | |
About the Author | 198 |