The gender stereotypes of the spoken behaviour of the Australians

Abstract

The article addresses the questions regarding the gender peculiarities of the spoken method of the representatives of the Australian English. The authentic material of the investigation and the acoustic analysis led to the following: the speech of the Australians, both men and women, is characterized by different intonation rhythm with the predominance of the rising terminal tone, level scale, wide and narrow voice range. The purpose of this study is to determine what intonation means characterize the speech of men and women, the representatives of Australian English. The objectives of the study included: - to make an audit analysis and identify the intonation means differentiating the speech of Australians in gender perspective; - to describe the gender stereotypes of verbal behaviour of the representatives of Australian English. The material of the research are the monologic utterances of the speakers of Australian English. Our study leads to the conclusion that the predominant terminal tone in the speech of Australian women is a rising presented be Mid Rise and High Rise. Rising tone is characterized as "soft", polite and has the meaning of friendly concern. Rising tone may occur in the initial, medial (in particular, in the enumeration) and the final part of the utterance. The characteristic nuclear tone in the speech of men is Low Fall. - Rising tones in the speech of women is combined with different types of heads and pre-heads (low, level, high). The Rise can be realized on any word, which is a semantic center of an utterance where the speaker focuses the attention of the interlocutors on one of the semantically important words. de and narrow voice range.

Keywords

• гендерні особливості
• мовленнєва поведінка
• інтонаційний ритм
• слуховий аналіз
• австралійський варіант англійської мови