Next Tuesday, 27th of January, Marcella Palladino (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) gives an open lecture on “Speech Processing Methods for Data Collection and Analysis in (Polito)Linguistics”. This presentation is held in person at the Technical University of Darmstadt. In order to attend, registration is required. To attend, please email emidani.estrella@outlook.com.
📌Location: TU Darmstadt, Marktplatz 15, S313/112 📌Date & Time: 27 January 2026 16:15 CET
About the speaker: Marcella Palladino holds a PhD in Human Sciences with a focus on German Linguistics from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy). She is Postdoc Research Fellow at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in a project on multilingual corpora of non-parliamentary political communication. She has been Visiting PhD Student at the Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich (Germany), where she worked on the application of speech processing and prosodic transcription systems to the analysis of German and Italian political speeches.
Studies that combine the analysis of the acoustic signal and politolinguistic categories are not frequent, and this leads to a common division between the works investigating prosodic features in politics and those focusing on discourse analysis. In addition, methods to collect and analyze a large amount of spoken data are not always available in the politolinguistic field. My contribution asserts the importance of considering both the acoustic signal and the aspects related to discourse analysis when analyzing spoken political communication, exploring both what is said and how it is said. In spoken language, not only but especially in the political context, the combination of the content and the oral realization contributes to the effectiveness of the speech and of the speaker. I will illustrate how the application of methods from the field of speech processing can enrich and enhance the creation of corpora and the analysis in politolinguistics, relating prosody to discourse analysis. To do so, I will examine the case study of German and Italian political speeches. Beyond the specific case, I argue that the developed workflow and methods can be applied to further languages and spoken communication in fields outside politics.
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