OSCAR: Opinion Survey Collation And Reporting

OSCAR_al02 Survey

Speech Perception Survey: Speaking Style

Li Peng, JNU, Guangdong, 2017

Background information: My name is Li Peng, and I am a 3rd year graduate student at Jinan University, Guangdong, China. This anonymous questionnaire is part of my graduation thesis. I am attempting to find a relation between speech acts and speaking style, using audio clips from Donald Trump's election speeches. This survey will take about 15 to 30 minutes. The survey is strictly anonymous and the information entered will be used for academic purposes only.

I am really grateful for your patience in finishing this questionnaire, thanks again for your excellent cooperation!


Section A: In Section A of the questionnaire, 5 background questions are asked about your personal information.

Section B: In Section B, 10 questions about your perspectives on impoliteness speech acts based on short extracts from Donald Trump's electoral speeches.

Procedure:

Section A

Age: 18-25: 26-45: 46-65: Over 65:
Gender Female: Male:
Which party do you tend to agree with? Republicans: Democrats: Other: Undecided:
First language:
Which variety of English (e.g. US, UK, ...) do you speak?

Section B


Audio_1: They met for thirty-nine minutes, remember, he said: "We talked golf, and we talked about our grandchildren." Three minutes for the grandchildren, two minutes for the golf.
Recording: *
The utterance is strongly agree agree no opinion disagree strongly disagree
sarcastic
appropriate
offensive
polite
arrogant
friendly
Please comment on which aspects of language appear to create the effects you perceive (e.g. tone of voice, emphasis, rhythm, pauses, words, grammar, repetitions,...)?

Audio_2: I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.
Recording: *
The utterance is strongly agree agree no opinion disagree strongly disagree
sarcastic
appropriate
offensive
polite
arrogant
friendly
Please comment on which aspects of language appear to create the effects you perceive (e.g. tone of voice, emphasis, rhythm, pauses, words, grammar, repetitions,...)?

Audio_3: Our country is being killed, because we have stupid people leading our country. We have people that don't know what they are doing! They don't know what they're doing!
Recording: *
The utterance is strongly agree agree no opinion disagree strongly disagree
sarcastic
appropriate
offensive
polite
arrogant
friendly
Please comment on which aspects of language appear to create the effects you perceive (e.g. tone of voice, emphasis, rhythm, pauses, words, grammar, repetitions,...)?

Audio_4: She is a world-class liar.
(She = Hillary Clinton)
Recording: *
The utterance is strongly agree agree no opinion disagree strongly disagree
sarcastic
appropriate
offensive
polite
arrogant
friendly
Please comment on which aspects of language appear to create the effects you perceive (e.g. tone of voice, emphasis, rhythm, pauses, words, grammar, repetitions,...)?

Audio_5: Five billion dollar website, I have so many websites, I have them all over the place. I hire people, they do a website, it costs me 3 dollars. Five billion dollar website.
(Context: Donald Trump is talking about Obama's health care website. Bloomberg Government estimated that Obama's healthcare government cost less than 2.1 billion dollars.
Recording: *
The utterance is strongly agree agree no opinion disagree strongly disagree
sarcastic
appropriate
offensive
polite
arrogant
friendly
Please comment on which aspects of language appear to create the effects you perceive (e.g. tone of voice, emphasis, rhythm, pauses, words, grammar, repetitions,...)?

Audio_6: And I I have to be honest with you. I don't think Hillary has the strength or the stamina to be president. I really mean that.
Recording: *
The utterance is strongly agree agree no opinion disagree strongly disagree
sarcastic
appropriate
offensive
polite
arrogant
friendly
Please comment on which aspects of language appear to create the effects you perceive (e.g. tone of voice, emphasis, rhythm, pauses, words, grammar, repetitions,...)?

Audio_7: How stupid are our leaders! How stupid are these politicians to allow this to happen! How stupid are they.
Recording: *
The utterance is strongly agree agree no opinion disagree strongly disagree
sarcastic
appropriate
offensive
polite
arrogant
friendly
Please comment on which aspects of language appear to create the effects you perceive (e.g. tone of voice, emphasis, rhythm, pauses, words, grammar, repetitions,...)?

Audio_8: Then there are the thirty-three thousand emails she deleted. While we may not know what's in those deleted emails, our enemies probably know every single one of them.
Recording: *
The utterance is strongly agree agree no opinion disagree strongly disagree
sarcastic
appropriate
offensive
polite
arrogant
friendly
Please comment on which aspects of language appear to create the effects you perceive (e.g. tone of voice, emphasis, rhythm, pauses, words, grammar, repetitions,...)?

Audio_9: The only thing Hillary Clinton has going for herself is the press. Without the press, she is absolutely zero.
Recording: *
The utterance is strongly agree agree no opinion disagree strongly disagree
sarcastic
appropriate
offensive
polite
arrogant
friendly
Please comment on which aspects of language appear to create the effects you perceive (e.g. tone of voice, emphasis, rhythm, pauses, words, grammar, repetitions,...)?

Audio_10: There has never been in the history of the world a greater theft than what China did to the US. We have rebuilt China, they have taken our jobs, they have taken our base, they have taken our money, they have taken everything, they have drained us.
Recording: *
The utterance is strongly agree agree no opinion disagree strongly disagree
sarcastic
appropriate
offensive
polite
arrogant
friendly
Please comment on which aspects of language appear to create the effects you perceive (e.g. tone of voice, emphasis, rhythm, pauses, words, grammar, repetitions,...)?


OSCAR, D. Gibbon, 2017-09-10