Vándalos. Una aproximación a la focalización prosódica en las alocuciones presidenciales durante el estallido social de Colombia en 2021

Abstract

The objective of this study is to analyze the mechanism of prosodic focalization used by the ex-President Iván Duque in 23 presidential speeches issued between April 22 and May 12 on 2021, during the social outbreak in Colombia. A corpus of 87 phrases was analyzed, distributed in two phases: an analysis of prosodic focalization in phrases that contained words derived from “vandal-” and “estud-”, and an analysis of focalized phrases, although they were not necessarily derived from these lexical families. The results suggest that focalized speech is characterized by a slower rhythm, longer pauses, higher values of F0, and a broader tonal range in comparison to non-focalized speech.