Query Details
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Query re tone languages
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| Author: | Susan Fischer | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Sociolinguistics
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| Query: |
This question was the result of a late-night idle conversation, and,
frankly, little of scholarly worth is likely to come out of it, but here goes: in a tone language, and here I'm thinking particularly of Chinese, is there some kind of compensatory process for conveying tones when whispering (or singing), such as substituting stress for a higher tone, or does context alone disambiguate potential homonyms? Please respond to me privately and I will summarize for the list given sufficient responses. Susan Fischer Susan Fischer e-mail: fischer@sal.tohoku.ac.jp Deparment of Linguistics phone/fax: 81-(0)22-217-5959 Faculty of Arts and Letters Tohoku University Here until August, 1997 Kawauchi Campus Sendai 980 JAPAN Hi everyone, I'm working on a doctoral dissertation on pragmatics. Presently I'm collecting a list of hedging expressions, of the following type: - I don't mean to be (e.g. rude, but . . . ) - This might seem (e.g. irrelevant, but . . . ) - I didn't meant to appear . . . - I'd hate to be . . . - It was never my intention to . . . - etc. (One of the main points about these expressions and the reason why they are interesting to me is that they may function as 'excuses' for infringing various kinds of (conversational or general sociocultural) 'norms'). Could YOU help me extend this list? If you can think of any expression even slightly family-resemblant to one of these, please add it and mail it back to me. I'd be forever grateful. Best wishes, Ann Jorid ##################################################### Ann Jorid Klungervik Stipendiat NFR NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology Department of English 7055 Dragvoll NORWAY Tel.: +47 73 59 67 65 Fax.: +47 73 59 67 70 ann.jorid.klungervik@hf.ntnu.no ##################################################### I am a graduate student completing my degree in Linguistics this December. I would like to enter a doctoral program a year from September. I've been looking for a good sociolinguistic program in a small town--either in the US or Canada--but I haven't been having much luck. If you have any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you. If there is enough interest, I can list the results. Please write to the address below with comments. hudgins@imap2.asu.edu Michelle A. Hudgins Department of English, Linguistics Arizona State University |
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| LL Issue: | 8.489 | |
| Date posted: | 09-Apr-1997 | |
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