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DOI：
10.1017/s0009840x00235464
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1980-10
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Robin Roy
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Robin Roy
本章探讨如何礼貌的提议和请求是编码的语调在加泰罗尼亚语，一种语言，使用两个不同的语调音高轮廓无偏见的是非问题。15个加泰罗尼亚语演讲者参加了一个话语完成任务，在控制社交距离，权力和行动成本的情况下引发报价和请求。对语料进行了韵律学和语用学分析。结果表明，动作成本和社交距离对语调选择有显着影响：说话者在高水平成本提供和高水平成本要求的情况下更频繁地使用升调模式。高级别距离请求也首选上升模式。一般来说，下降模式往往更频繁地与要约一起使用。研究表明，在描述跨语言的语调选择时需要考虑礼貌因素。
This chapter examines how politeness in offers and requests is encoded by intonation in Catalan, a language which uses two distinct intonational pitch contours for unbiased yes-no questions. Fifteen Central Catalan speakers participated in a Discourse Completion Task that elicited offers and requests in scenarios controlled for level of social distance, power, and cost of the action. The data were prosodically and pragmatically analyzed. The results showed that cost of the action and social distance have significant effects on intonation choices: speakers use rising pitch patterns more frequently with high-level cost offers and with high-level cost requests. The rising pattern is also preferred with high-level distance requests. In general, the falling pattern tends to be used more frequently with offers. The study shows that politeness factors need to be taken into account in the description of intonation choices across languages.