36.144, Books: Spoken Threats from Production to Perception: James Tompkinson

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Date: 14-Jan-2025
From: Ellena Moriarty [ellena.moriarty at cambridge.org]
Subject: Spoken Threats from Production to Perception: James Tompkinson


Title: Spoken Threats from Production to Perception
Publication Year: 2024

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL: https://cambridge.org/9781009293013

Author(s): James Tompkinson

Paperback 9781009293013: £17.00 / £22.00 / 19.84 EURO
Hardback 9781009494496: £49.99 / $64.99 / 58.34 EURO

Abstract:

Spoken threats are a common but linguistically complex language crime.
Although threatening language has been examined from different
linguistic perspectives, there is limited research which critically
addresses how people perceive spoken threats and infer traits such as
threat and intent from speakers' voices. There is also minimal
linguistic research addressing differences between written and spoken
threats. By specifically analysing threats delivered in both written
and spoken modalities, as well as integrating perceptual phonetic
analysis into discussions on spoken threats, this Element offers
perspectives on these two under-researched areas. It highlights the
dangers of assuming that the way in which someone sounds correlates
with, for example, their intention to commit harm, and explores
potential problems in assuming that written and spoken threats are
equivalent to one another. The goal of the Element is to advance
linguistic knowledge and understanding around spoken threats, as well
as promote further research in the area.

Written In: English (eng)



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