Vocative intonation preferences are sensitive to politeness factors

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• dc.contributor.author Borràs Comes, Joan Manel, 1984-
• dc.contributor.author Sichel-Bazin, Rafèu
• dc.contributor.author Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-
• dc.date.accessioned 2023-06-22T07:24:02Z
• dc.date.available 2023-06-22T07:24:02Z
• dc.date.issued 2015
• dc.description.abstract 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.
• dc.description.sponsorship This research has been funded by a research grant awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (FFI2012-31995 “Gestures, prosody and linguistic structure”), and by a grant awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya (2014 SGR-925) to the Grup d’Estudis de Prosòdia.
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• dc.identifier.citation Borràs-Comes J, Sichel-Bazin R, Prieto P. Vocative intonation preferences are sensitive to politeness factors. Lang Speech. 2015;58(1):68–83. DOI: 10.1177/0023830914565441
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0023830914565441
• dc.identifier.issn 0023-8309
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57294
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher SAGE Publications
• dc.relation.ispartof Language and Speech. 2015;58(1):68–83.
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/FFI2012-31995
• dc.rights Borràs-Comes J, Sichel-Bazin R, Prieto P, Vocative intonation preferences are sensitive to politeness factors, Language and Speech (Vol. 58, Iss. 1) pp. 68–83. Copyright © 2015 The Author(s). DOI: 10.1177/0023830914565441
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• dc.subject.keyword vocatives
• dc.subject.keyword vocative intonation
• dc.subject.keyword politeness
• dc.subject.keyword intonation
• dc.subject.keyword chant
• dc.subject.keyword Catalan
• dc.title Vocative intonation preferences are sensitive to politeness factors
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