Publications

Publication details [#32399]

Laplante, Debi and Nalini Ambady. 2003. On How Things Are Said: Voice Tone, Voice Intensity, Verbal Content, and Perceptions of Politeness. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 22 (4) : 434–441.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

content1 | politeness | tone of voice

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0261-927X

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

The results of this study demonstrate that tone of voice strongly affects listeners' politeness ratings for positive content statements but only minimally affects their politeness ratings for negative content statements.