Borràs-Comes Joan, Sichel-Bazin Raféu, Prieto Pilar
Lang Speech. 2015 Mar;58(Pt 1):68-83. doi: 10.1177/0023830914565441.
Although intonation has been traditionally associated with the expression of attitudes and intentions on the part of the speaker, little is known about whether sociopragmatic factors, such as power or social distance, or situational ones, like physical distance or insistence, can constrain the use and felicity of pitch contours. This article investigates the felicity conditions underlying the choice of three vocative pitch contours in Central Catalan by means of two experiments, namely a production experiment based on the Discourse Completion Task (320 vocative contours produced by 20 speakers), and an acceptability judgment task in which 72 listeners were asked to rate the appropriateness match between a set of vocative contours and a previous discourse context (3,456 responses). The results from the two experiments show that both situational and social politeness factors govern the choice of vocative intonation. Finally, the results are discussed in line with the traditional classification of politeness strategies defined by Brown and Levinson, in the sense that the three intonation contours can be linked to negative, positive, and bald on-record politeness strategies.
尽管传统上认为语调与说话者的态度和意图表达相关，但对于社会语用因素（如权力或社会距离）或情境因素（如物理距离或坚持程度）是否会限制音高轮廓的使用和恰当性，人们知之甚少。本文通过两个实验研究了加泰罗尼亚中部三种呼语音高轮廓选择背后的恰当性条件，即一个基于话语完成任务的产出实验（20名说话者生成了320个呼语轮廓），以及一个可接受性判断任务，其中72名听众被要求对一组呼语轮廓与先前话语语境之间的恰当匹配程度进行评分（共3456个回答）。这两个实验的结果表明，情境因素和社会礼貌因素都对呼语语调的选择起支配作用。最后，根据布朗和列文森定义的礼貌策略传统分类对结果进行了讨论，即这三种语调轮廓可以与消极、积极和公开记录的礼貌策略联系起来。
