Culture and Gender of Voice Pitch - A Sociophonetic Comparison of the Japanese and Americans - Ikuko Patricia Yuasa
Voice pitch and expression of emotion
Culture and Gender of Voice Pitch - A Sociophonetic Comparison of the Japanese and Americans - Ikuko Patricia Yuasa
Ikuko Patricia Yuasa [+]
University of Iowa
Ikuko Patricia Yuasa is Assistant Professor of Japanese sociolinguistics teaching in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Iowa. She is a former student of Robin Lakoff and Yoko Hasegawa at the University of California, Berkeley where she received her doctoral degree in East Asian Languages and Cultures
Description
This chapter examines the meanings of voice pitch modulation in terms of a universal human behavior: the expression of emotion. This human behavior is found to be crucial in the understanding of the differences in voice pitch modulation used by speakers of Japanese and American English.