Jana Neitsch

Zusammenfassung Dass Hassrede (hate speech) zunehmend als Problem gilt, geht nicht allein auf ein steigendes Vorkommen zurück, sondern auch auf eine erhöhte Sensibilität für dieses Thema. Da die sprachliche Struktur von Hassrede sehr vielfältig und ihre Wahrnehmung sehr komplex ist, rückt ihre Erforschung zudem verstärkt in den Fokus der Linguistik...

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, many researchers in laboratory speech sciences were forced to find new ways to collect their data with recording procedures functioning remotely, even with social distancing and travel restrictions in place. In this paper, we report a freeware remote method that offers several advantages, such a...

The recipient is a stimulus-external factor that has so far hardly been investigated in hate-speech research. However, addressing this factor is essential to understand how and why hate speech unfolds its negative effects and which characteristics of the recipient influence these effects. The present study focuses on the recipient. Building on prev...

Previous literature recommends using stylistic (or rhetorical) devices in presentations such as rhetorical questions (RQs: Does anyone want bad teeth? ) to make them more professional, to appear more charismatic, and to convince an audience. However, in oral presentations, it is not only the what that matters in using stylistic devices like RQs, bu...

This article contrastively analyzes the perception of written and spoken hate speech. The basic question is: How do linguistic features of hate-speech expressions affect the assessment of respondents with regards to people’s personal unacceptability of these expressions and their possible consequences for the author or speaker? Three specific aspec...

Hate speech, both written and spoken, is a growing source of concern as it often discriminates societal minorities for their national origin, sexual orientation, gender or disabilities. Despite its destructive power, hardly anything is known about whether there are cross-linguistic mechanisms and acoustic-phonetic characteristics of hate speech. Fo...

Several studies have shown that rhetorical wh-questions (RQs) and string-identical information-seeking wh-questions (ISQs) are realized with different prosodic characteristics. In contrast to ISQs, RQs have been shown to be phonetically realized with a breathier (i.e., softer) voice quality (e.g., German and English) and longer constituent duration...

The present study deals with a key factor of speaker charisma: prosody or, to put it less technically, speech melody. In a contrastive analysis, we investigate the extent to which computer-aided real-time visualizations of acoustic-melodic parameters in a self-guided training task help speakers use these parameters more charismatically. Fifty-two s...

Phonetic research on the prosodic sources of perceived charisma has taken a big step towards making a speaker’s tone-of-voice a tangible, quantifiable, and trainable matter. However, the tone-of-voice includes a complex bundle of acoustic features, and a lot of parameters have not even been looked at so far. Moreover, all previous studies focused o...

Modern life is shaped by e-learning, home office, talking machines, virtual meetings and job interviews as well as by a social-media presence that is as influential as possible, both privately and professionally. In short, modern life requires, perhaps more than ever before, charismatic communication skills from all of us. Accordingly, this ability...

Modern life is shaped by e-learning, home office, talking machines, virtual meetings and job inter- views as well as by a social-media presence that is as influential as possible, both privately and professionally. In short, modern life requires, perhaps more than ever before, charismatic com- munication skills from all of us. Accordingly, this abi...

Based on a set of existing and real hate speech stimuli (written and spoken), our pilot study demonstrates that the bio-signals of heart rate, breathing and skin conductance response mirror explicit scale assessments of the stimuli from previous experiments and are, therefore, an attractive, direct alternative to measuring hate-speech perception

This study presents an overview and preliminary findings from the XPEROHS-project on hate speech in online contexts. The data is extracted from large-scale Facebook and Twitter corpora, while comparing linguistic instantiations of hate speech in the Danish and German languages. Findings are based on four sub-projects involving the semantics and pra...

The present pilot study investigates spoken hate-speech items, produced by a professional German speaker after actual Twitter and Facebook posts and reflecting characteristic morpho-syntactic features of German hate speech. Acoustic-prosodic signal analyses reveal a considerable feature-specific variation in the production of hate speech. Thus, at...

Evidence of a production experiment is presented suggesting that, unlike often claimed in rhetorical manuals and coachings, it is actually the chest breathing rather than the abdominal "belly" breathing that supports the acoustic-prosodic parameter settings of a (more) charismatic/persuasive tone of voice.

This paper reports on the prosody of rhetorical questions (RQs) and information-seeking questions (ISQs) in German for two question types, polar questions and constituent questions (henceforth wh-questions). The results are as follows: Phonologically, polar RQs were mainly realized with H-% (high plateau), while polar ISQs mostly ended in H-^H% (hi...

Contrary to information-seeking questions (ISQs), rhetorical questions (RQs) occur in non-neutral contexts , e.g., to criticize, challenge, or persuade the addressee. We study the influence of two attitudinal contexts (disgust and mockery) on the prosodic realization of wh-RQs (Who likes lavender?) in Ger-man relative to a non-attitudinal control c...

Annotating intonation is a considerable challenge, since not only intonational form but also its meaning are complex in terms of their internal make-up and contextual variation. Since the advent of the au-tosegmental-metrical approach to intonation in the 1980s, the annotation of intonation has continued to be a matter of debate, witnessed by the c...

Annotating intonation is a considerable challenge, since not only intonational form but also its meaning are complex in terms of their internal make-up and contextual variation. Since the advent of the au-tosegmental-metrical approach to intonation in the 1980s, the annotation of intonation has continued to be a matter of debate, witnessed by the c...

This study investigates the prosody of rhetorical questions in German. In an interaction study we examined how speakers use boundary tones, pitch, duration and voice quality to mark syntactically ambiguous questions as rhetorical or information-seeking. To this end, speakers produced identical interrogatives (polar and wh-questions) in rhetorical a...

Binomials (e.g., German Ebbe und Flut; 'ebb and flow') are a common phenomenon of many languages, but little is known about how they are stored, produced and processed. We tested the production of German nominal binomials and compared their onset latency to the onset latency of forms in which one part of the binomial was replaced by an alternative...

Binomials (e.g., German Ebbe und Flut; 'ebb and flow') are a common phenomenon of many languages, but little is known about how they are stored, produced and processed. We tested the production of German nominal binomials and compared their onset latency to the onset latency of forms in which one part of the binomial was replaced by an alternative...