Salience and the Social Meaning of Declarative Contours
Salience and the Social Meaning of Declarative Contours
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声明性轮廓的显着性和社会意义
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2011
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Robert Podesva
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Robert Podesva
大多数探索变异的社会意义的研究都集中在音段水平上的语音变量。本文探讨了三位同性恋专业人士言语中语调变化的社会意义。为了探讨如何语调意义可以被利用为象征性资源，本研究采取了一个语内的方法，检查声明语调模式在三种情况下，每个扬声器。分析表明，扬声器表现出系统的变化模式的两个层面上的频率与变体被采用或其语音表现取决于变体的显着性。这些模式的社会意义是通过将它们置于其话语和民族志背景中来推断的。重要的是，语调意义的表面在两个变体的选择和语音渲染。变体的范畴选择传达语用意义，变体的语音实现反映其社会意义的强弱。
Most studies exploring the social meaning of variation have focused on phonological variables at the segmental level. This article investigates the social meaning of intonational variation in the speech of three gay professionals. To examine how intonational meanings can be exploited as symbolic resources, this study takes an intraspeaker approach, inspecting declarative intonation patterns across three situations per speaker. The analysis reveals that speakers exhibit systematic patterns of variation on either of two levels—the frequency with which variants are employed or their phonetic manifestations—depending on the salience of variants. The social significance of these patterns is inferred by situating them in their discourse and ethnographic contexts. Importantly, intonational meaning surfaces in both the choice of a variant and its phonetic rendering. The categorical choice of a variant conveys pragmatic meaning, while the variant’s phonetic realization reflects the strength of its social meaning.