Rhetorical Pauses in Oral Reading
- 1 October 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Language and Speech
- Vol. 22 (4) , 397-405
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002383097902200408
Abstract
Church lectors, beginning drama students, and advanced drama students read a passage from St. Paul's "First Letter to the Corinthians." Drama students used both faster articulation and speech rates and fewer silent pauses than church lectors. The advanced drama students also used a greater number of longer silent pauses than the other two groups. Both expert and nonprofessional evaluations showed preference for readings by the advanced drama students and then the beginning drama students over the church lectors.Keywords
This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
- Temporal aspects of poetry readings by authors and adultsBulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 1978
- Speed of speech and persuasion.Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1976
- Temporal Aspects of Reading Aloud and Speaking: Three ExperimentsThe American Journal of Psychology, 1975
- Development of temporal patterning and vocal hesitations in spontaneous narrativesJournal of Psycholinguistic Research, 1975
- Communicative Silences: Forms and FunctionsJournal of Communication, 1973
- Cross-linguistic pause and rate phenomena in adults and adolescentsJournal of Psycholinguistic Research, 1972
- Rate and pause characteristics of oral readingJournal of Psycholinguistic Research, 1972
- Lexical and syntactic predictors of the distribution of pause time in readingJournal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1971
- Perception of the Personality of the Hesitant SpeakerPerceptual and Motor Skills, 1968
- An experimental study of the durational characteristics of the voice during the expression of emotionSpeech Monographs, 1941