Conference on Honorifics to be held at Reed College, in mid-April l988.

荣誉会议将于 1988 年 4 月中旬在里德学院举行。

• 批准号: 8720461
• 负责人: John Haviland
• 金额: $ 0.8万
• 依托单位: Reed College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-03-01 至 1989-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8720461&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Honorifics; held; Reed; College

This is an award to provide airfare, meals, and lodging for twelve participants at a conference on honorifics at Reed College. Participants, whose research extends over syntax, semantics, morphology, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and the ethnography of speaking, will discuss the adequate description and the theoretical significance of categories in language that express respect and disrespect. Languages and language groups to be discussed include Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Tibetan, Mesoamerican Indian languages, North American Indian languages, African languages, languages of India, and Western European languages. Languages express relative status of speaker and hearer and attitude toward the topic of discussion in many ways such as the use of special vocabulary, pronouns, affixes, or euphemisms and circulocutions. In some languages the speaker is required to make choices and evaluations for every utterance, while in others there are neutral ways of speaking that avoid expression of relative status or attitude. Descriptions of languages often omit this aspect of usage, since it has little to do with propositional content or abstract grammaticality. However, a grammatical sentence is not necessarily an appropriate sentence. Recently linguists have become concerned with cross-linguistic studies of the mechanisms of polite speech.

该奖项为里德学院荣誉会议的 12 名与会者提供机票、膳食和住宿。 参与者的研究涵盖句法、语义、词法、语用学、社会语言学和言语民族志，他们将讨论表达尊重和不尊重的语言类别的充分描述和理论意义。讨论的语言和语族包括日语、汉语、韩语、泰语、藏语、中美洲印第安语言、北美印第安语言、非洲语言、印度语言和西欧语言。 语言通过多种方式表达说话者和听话者的相对地位以及对讨论主题的态度，例如使用特殊词汇、代词、词缀、委婉语和循环用语。 在某些语言中，说话者需要对每句话做出选择和评价，而在另一些语言中，则有中立的说话方式，避免表达相对地位或态度。 对语言的描述常常忽略这方面的用法，因为它与命题内容或抽象语法关系不大。 然而，符合语法的句子并不一定是合适的句子。 最近，语言学家开始关注礼貌言语机制的跨语言研究。