https://doi.org/10.31261/NEO.2014.26.06
The aim of this study is to observe the importance and specific nature of pauses in speech production, depending on the context. Samples of François Hollande’s speech in two different TV debates are analysed: in the first one he debated with Martine Aubry during the second round of the Primary Socialist elections in France; in the second debate he faced Nicolas Sarkozy during the second round of the presidential elections. The present study is the combination of phonetic and linguistic discourse analyses of speech. The objective was to determine if the type of debate affects the politician’s speech; would speaking strategies differ when the speaker is confronted with a member of his own party, compared with a situation where he is faces a member of a rival party? Indeed, significant differences have been found in François Hollande’s speech, and also in his gestures and postures depending on the context. He speaks slowly and pauses are longer when he debates with Nicolas Sarkozy, presumably a strategy enployed not only to appear calm and confident but also to be better understood by the audience watching the debate, that is potential voters during the presidential elections.
Download files
Citation rules
Cited by / Share
Licence
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
The Copyright Owners of the submitted texts grant the Reader the right to use the pdf documents under the provisions of the Creative Commons 4.0 International License: Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY SA). The user can copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose.
1. License
The University of Silesia Press provides immediate open access to journal’s content under the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Authors who publish with this journal retain all copyrights and agree to the terms of the above-mentioned CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
2. Author’s Warranties
The author warrants that the article is original, written by stated author/s, has not been published before, contains no unlawful statements, does not infringe the rights of others, is subject to copyright that is vested exclusively in the author and free of any third party rights, and that any necessary written permissions to quote from other sources have been obtained by the author/s.
If the article contains illustrative material (drawings, photos, graphs, maps), the author declares that the said works are of his authorship, they do not infringe the rights of the third party (including personal rights, i.a. the authorization to reproduce physical likeness) and the author holds exclusive proprietary copyrights. The author publishes the above works as part of the article under the licence "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International".
ATTENTION! When the legal situation of the illustrative material has not been determined and the necessary consent has not been granted by the proprietary copyrights holders, the submitted material will not be accepted for editorial process. At the same time the author takes full responsibility for providing false data (this also regards covering the costs incurred by the University of Silesia Press and financial claims of the third party).
3. User Rights
Under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, the users are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit the contribution) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) the article for any purpose, provided they attribute the contribution in the manner specified by the author or licensor.
4. Co-Authorship
If the article was prepared jointly with other authors, the signatory of this form warrants that he/she has been authorized by all co-authors to sign this agreement on their behalf, and agrees to inform his/her co-authors of the terms of this agreement.
As the author of the proposed text, I hereby declare that in the event of withdrawal of the text from the publishing process or submitting it to another publisher without agreement from the editorial office, I agree to cover all costs incurred by the University of Silesia in connection with my application.
Vol. 26 (2014)
Published: 2014-11-03
10.31261/NEO
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Français (France)
English