The evaluation of unfilled pauses: limits of the prestige, solidarity and dynamism dimensions

• Erik Schleef ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Salzburg

     University of Salzburg

     Salzburg, Austria

     
• Localización: Lingua: International review of general linguistics, ISSN 0024-3841, Nº 228, 2019
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This study compares the evaluation of unfilled pauses with speech without such pauses. The comparison is based on a set of perception surveys, in which participants listened to manipulated audio stimuli and rated them on a series of scales. Results provide evidence of pauses being evaluated on a prestige and a dynamism dimension. Guises with pauses are rated as more articulate, educated, etc., but they are equally rated as less assertive, confident, etc. than guises without pauses. Differential evaluation does not occur on the solidarity dimension. This study also confirms that the evaluation of pauses is multidimensional and variable as topic or stance interact with the evaluation of guise