2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Gender differences in impressions of speeches in media content
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19K13206
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02070:Japanese linguistics-related
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| Research Institution | Hokkai-Gakuen University (2020-2023)
Osaka University of Economics and Law (2019) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | 演技音声 / 社会言語学 / ジェンダー / 実験音声学 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Through this study, it became clear that various phonetic means are used in media acting voice to achieve gender expression.
A comparison of the voice of the same voice actress in female and male roles revealed that the voice was higher than that of spontaneous female speech in the female roles and closer to that of spontaneous female speech in the male roles. However, whispers were used more effectively in the male roles. The second and third formants of vowels tended to be higher in the female roles than in the male roles. In intonation at the end of sentences, intonation of rise were used more frequently in female roles, even in non-interrogative sentences, while in male roles, they were used according to the character of the role.
As described above, the skillful manipulation of various phonetic means embodied gender expression through advanced acting.
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| Free Research Field |
音声学
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
これまで、日本語のことばのジェンダーのイメージに関する研究は主に文字資料や文字化された資料を用いて行われており、どのような音声的特徴が女性的、あるいは男性的であるとされているかについてはあまり明らかにされてこなかった。本研究は、男性役と女性役を演じた同一の女性声優の音声を分析対象とすることで、どのように役柄の性差を体現しているかを明らかにした点で、社会言語学やジェンダー言語学の領域における学術的な意義があると考える。
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