Pragmalinguistic Basic Research on the Ring Languages of Cameroon (3): Communication Strategies of Requesting, Complaining and Apologizing in the context of culture-specific norms and moral concepts

该项目位于非洲语言学、民族语用学和会话话语分析的接口，旨在记录和分析埃塞俄比亚草原地区两种语言（伊苏语和曼语）的言语实践，以及这些实践对文化规范和社会身份建构的贡献。前一个研究阶段是面向民族和语用语言学分析的言语行为的请求，抱怨，并道歉在其文化背景。为继续这一方针，目前设想的研究将侧重于文献空白，并集中于分析尚未完成或现有假设尚未得到经验数据充分支持的领域。更具体和实际地说，研究将以下列次级目标为指导：（a）通过完善的方法专门记录道歉的言语行为，（B）对请求和投诉进行深入的语用语言学分析，以检验工作报告中提出的假设，特别是关于升级和降级战略的内部层次结构的假设，（c）对其他言语行为进行系统的词汇语义和语用分析，这些言语行为可以在请求、投诉和道歉的范围内得到承认，但与工作报告中具体说明的迄今为止根据土著术语词汇化确定的言语行为不同，（d）有针对性地收集文化内部人士关于沟通行为背后的价值观和规范的陈述和思考，以促进对工作报告2.4中提出的假设的经验反馈，（e）从比较的角度对功能相关的言语行为进行系统的认知语义分析，特别注意概念和语境参数的平行性和差异。

Located at the interface of African linguistics, ethnopragmatics and conversational discourse analysis, this project aims at documenting and analyzing the speech practices in two languages of the Cameroonian Grassfields, Isu and Men, and the way these practices contribute to the construction of cultural norms and social identities. The previous research period was geared towards an ethno- and pragmalinguistic analysis of speech acts of requesting, complaining, and apologizing in their cultural context. In continuation of this line, the presently envisaged research will be focused on gaps of documentation and zoom in on those areas where the analysis has not yet been completed or where existing hypotheses have not yet been found to be sufficiently supported by empirical data. More specifically and practically speaking, research will be guided by the following sub-goals: (a) dedicated documentation of speech acts of apologizing by means of a refined methodology, (b) in-depth pragmalinguistic analysis of requests and complaints with regard to testing the hypotheses spelt out in the work report, in particular those concerning the internal hierarchies of up- and downgrading strategies, (c) systematic lexico-semantic and pragmatic analysis of additional speech acts which could be recognized within the domain of requests, complaints, and apologies, but which are distinct from the ones identified so far on the basis of their lexicalization in indigenous terminology, as specified in the work report, (d) targeted collection of statements and reflections of cultural insiders about values and norms underlying the communicative behavior so as to facilitate empirical feedback of the hypotheses presented in 2.4 of the work report, (e) systematic cognitive-semantic analysis of functionally related speech acts in a comparative perspective with special regard to parallelisms and divergences in conceptions and contextual parameters.