Sabine Kowal
Biographic Data
| ID | 1156516 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sabine Kowal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sabine |
| FAMILY NAME | Kowal |
| SIGNATURE | KOWAL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technische Universität Berlin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Personal perspective in TV news interviews
Two interviews by Christiane Amanpour televized September 8, 2000 on CNN, one with Ehud Barak and one with Yasser Arafat were analyzed for indicators of personal perspective. Generally, use of the same indicators as in Suleiman, O’Connell, & Kowal (2002) was confirmed: Number of syllables spoken; use of first-person singular and plural pronominals and second-person pronominals; hesitations; smooth and interruptive turn transitions; and questions …
Hillary Clinton’s laughter in media interviews
Laughter in dialogue has been researched under the aegis of many different disciplines. The present approach is psycholinguistic, but with some reliance on recent research in phonetics and conversation analysis (CA). A corpus of laughter from four TV and two radio interviews of Hillary Clinton was analyzed by means of the PRAAT software (www.praat.org) for acoustic measurements. All the interviews had taken place in the several weeks immediately …
Interjections in literary readings and artistic performance
Numerosity and privileges of occurrence of various types of interjections (primary conventional, primary non-conventional, secondary, and onomatopoeic) were investigated in three different literary readings of Winnie-the-Pooh (Milne 1926), in one reading of Ulysses (Joyce 1960), and in an artistic performance by actors (the film The third man , Korda, Selznik, & Reed 1949). The spoken corpora, based on printed texts as source, consisted of 667 in…
Theoretical ideals and their violation: Princess Diana and Martin Bashir in the BBC interview
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An empirical investigation of pause notation
The current article examines the limitations of perceptual judgment for the transcription of pause occurrence and duration. This investigation extends Kowal and O’Connell’s (2000) previous research, which examined pause occurrence and duration notated by perceptual judgment with measurements from acoustic instruments for three corpora. Kowal and O’Connell found that, across corpora, there were a notable number of errors in perceptual detection of…
Some current transcription systems for spoken discourse: A critical analysis
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Are transcripts reproducible
The research reported here is part of a larger psycholinguistic project on transcribing and the use of transcripts. It is hypothesized that reproducing transcripts originally prepared on the basis of current transcription systems overloads the capability of those who carry out transcript reproduction and therefore occasions an excessive error rate. Ten reproduced transcripts were taken from (a) three current textbooks (Duranti 1997; Garman 1990; …
Laughter in the film The third man
Two types of laughter were investigated in both the English- and the German-language versions of the film noir The third man (Korda, Selznik, & Reed 1949, 1962): ha-ha laughter and laughter overlaid on spoken words. The present authors’ transcripts constituted the database of the investigation. These were compared with other available versions: In English, the original novel (Greene 1950), the screenplay (Greene 1984), and a www.geocities.com tra…
Psychologische Ansätze zur Erforschung des Lachens
Der folgende Aufsatz gibt eine selektive Zusammenfassung der mehr als 130-jährigen Geschichte und des gegenwärtigen Forschungsstandes zu Definition, Arten und Funktionen des vokalen Lachens von Erwachsenen aus psychologischer Perspektive. Der Überblick zeigt, dass das Lachen bisher zwar nur sporadisch untersucht wurde, zugleich aber als vielversprechendes Thema betrachtet wird. Im Laufe der Zeit ist in empirischen Untersuchungen die kommunikative…
Ragnar Rommetveit’s Approach to Everyday Spoken Dialogue from Within
Sources of History for “A Psychology of Verbal Communication”
Start-up Rhetoric in Eight Speeches of Barack Obama
Interjections in the Performance of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Verbal Integrity
The concept of verbal integrity, if not the formulation, is from Ragnar Rommetveit. In his retired years, he has come to insist upon the relevance of moral responsibility for a comprehensive understanding of every utterance. Quite simply, every utterance of a human being in socio-cultural interaction with others through the medium of language must be a responsible interaction – on the part of both speaker and listener, and on the part of both wri…
The Research Status of Clayman and Heritage’s (2002) The News Interview
Laughter in Bill Clinton’s My life (2004) interviews
Two types of laughter of Bill Clinton and his interviewers – as an overlay of words spoken laughingly and laughter of the ha-ha sort - were investigated. The corpus consisted of 13 media interviews, all of which took place after the publication of his book My life (2004). Bill Clinton’s laughter was found to be dominantly an overlay of words spoken laughingly, whereas his interviewers’ laughter was dominantly of the ha-ha sort. In general, ha-ha …
Uh and Um Revisited: Are They Interjections for Signaling Delay
Interjections in Interviews
Where Do Interjections Come From? A Psycholinguistic Analysis of Shaw's Pygmalion
The History of Research on the Filled Pause as Evidence of The Written Language Bias in Linguistics (Linell, 1982)
Dialogicality in TV news interviews
“If you and I, if we, in this later day, lose that sacred fire…”: Perspective in Political Interviews
Notation Systems for Transcription: An Empirical Investigation
Transcription and the Issue of Standardization
Reading Aloud from Logographic and Alphabetic Texts: Comparisons Between Chinese and German
Uh and Um Revisited: Are They Interjections for Signaling Delay
The Trouble with "Articulatory" Pauses
The historical provenance of a minimum cut-off point (of about 0.25 sec) for pauses in temporal analyses of speech production is associated with Goldman-Eisler's usage. Her rationale was the predominance of articulatory pauses at lengths shorter than 0.25 sec. Both phonotactic facts and empirical analysis of several corpora of readings disconfirm this predominance with respect to pauses 0.13-0.25 sec in length. The vast majority of these pauses a…
Development of temporal patterning and vocal hesitations in spontaneous narratives
Orality and literacy in public discourse: An interview of Hannah Arendt
Orality and literacy were investigated in a 1964 German television interview of Hannah Arendt by Günter Gaus and publications thereof. The interview itself was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize (1964); and yet, the publications were extensively edited. This paradox raises the question: what was changed in this transition from successful oral performance to readable literate prose? Information regarding temporal organization was inevitably lost in th…
Turn-taking: A critical analysis of the research tradition
Cross-linguistic pause and rate phenomena in adults and adolescents
Interjections in Interviews
Dialogicality in TV news interviews
Transcription and the Issue of Standardization
Interplay of Literacy and Orality in Inaugural Rhetoric
The Use of Time in Storytelling
A total of 18 experimental corpora of spontaneous speech in five languages (English, Finnish, French, German, and Spanish) were examined under the hypothesis that they are characterized by commonalities in the use of time. Each study was based on the same speech type, story telling elicited by pictorial materials. The temporal measures were speech and articulation rates, pause duration, phrase length, and percentage of pause time/total time. The …
Where Do Interjections Come From? A Psycholinguistic Analysis of Shaw's Pygmalion
Cognitive Rhythms Reluctantly Revisited
In response to the Power (1983) - Beattie (1984) controversy, a more general critique of the construct of cognitive rhythms is presented. It is argued that the term itself is a misnomer, that the relevance of articulation rate has been neglected, that fluent and hesitant phases of cognitive rhythms have been assessed both subjectively and intuitively, that the speech-production model underlying the concept is simplistic, and that the empirical ev…
The spontaneity of media interviews
The Research Status of Clayman and Heritage’s (2002) The News Interview
The History of Research on the Filled Pause as Evidence of The Written Language Bias in Linguistics (Linell, 1982)
Reading Aloud from Logographic and Alphabetic Texts: Comparisons Between Chinese and German
Cross-linguistic pause and rate phenomena in adults and adolescents
Development of temporal patterning and vocal hesitations in spontaneous narratives
Pausology
The Use of Time in Storytelling
A total of 18 experimental corpora of spontaneous speech in five languages (English, Finnish, French, German, and Spanish) were examined under the hypothesis that they are characterized by commonalities in the use of time. Each study was based on the same speech type, story telling elicited by pictorial materials. The temporal measures were speech and articulation rates, pause duration, phrase length, and percentage of pause time/total time. The …
The Trouble with "Articulatory" Pauses
The historical provenance of a minimum cut-off point (of about 0.25 sec) for pauses in temporal analyses of speech production is associated with Goldman-Eisler's usage. Her rationale was the predominance of articulatory pauses at lengths shorter than 0.25 sec. Both phonotactic facts and empirical analysis of several corpora of readings disconfirm this predominance with respect to pauses 0.13-0.25 sec in length. The vast majority of these pauses a…
Cognitive Rhythms Reluctantly Revisited
In response to the Power (1983) - Beattie (1984) controversy, a more general critique of the construct of cognitive rhythms is presented. It is argued that the term itself is a misnomer, that the relevance of articulation rate has been neglected, that fluent and hesitant phases of cognitive rhythms have been assessed both subjectively and intuitively, that the speech-production model underlying the concept is simplistic, and that the empirical ev…
The spontaneity of media interviews
Turn-taking: A critical analysis of the research tradition
Basic Principles of Transcription
Using language
Interplay of Literacy and Orality in Inaugural Rhetoric
Reading Aloud from Logographic and Alphabetic Texts: Comparisons Between Chinese and German
Orality and literacy in public discourse: An interview of Hannah Arendt
Orality and literacy were investigated in a 1964 German television interview of Hannah Arendt by Günter Gaus and publications thereof. The interview itself was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize (1964); and yet, the publications were extensively edited. This paradox raises the question: what was changed in this transition from successful oral performance to readable literate prose? Information regarding temporal organization was inevitably lost in th…
Transcription and the Issue of Standardization
“If you and I, if we, in this later day, lose that sacred fire…”: Perspective in Political Interviews
Notation Systems for Transcription: An Empirical Investigation
The History of Research on the Filled Pause as Evidence of The Written Language Bias in Linguistics (Linell, 1982)
Dialogicality in TV news interviews
Laughter in Bill Clinton’s My life (2004) interviews
Two types of laughter of Bill Clinton and his interviewers – as an overlay of words spoken laughingly and laughter of the ha-ha sort - were investigated. The corpus consisted of 13 media interviews, all of which took place after the publication of his book My life (2004). Bill Clinton’s laughter was found to be dominantly an overlay of words spoken laughingly, whereas his interviewers’ laughter was dominantly of the ha-ha sort. In general, ha-ha …
Uh and Um Revisited: Are They Interjections for Signaling Delay
Interjections in Interviews
Where Do Interjections Come From? A Psycholinguistic Analysis of Shaw's Pygmalion
Verbal Integrity
The concept of verbal integrity, if not the formulation, is from Ragnar Rommetveit. In his retired years, he has come to insist upon the relevance of moral responsibility for a comprehensive understanding of every utterance. Quite simply, every utterance of a human being in socio-cultural interaction with others through the medium of language must be a responsible interaction – on the part of both speaker and listener, and on the part of both wri…
The Research Status of Clayman and Heritage’s (2002) The News Interview
Start-up Rhetoric in Eight Speeches of Barack Obama
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