Publications

Publication details [#58882]

Devís Herraiz, Empar and Francisco José Cantero Serena. 2014. The intonation of mitigating politeness in Catalan. Journal of Politeness Research 10 (1) : 127–149.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

intonation | mitigation | politeness | pragmatics | prosody

Language as a subject

Catalan

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/JPLR/html

Annotation

This article provides a descriptive model of the melodic features of politeness mitigating expressions in Catalan, based on the acoustic analysis and ensuing perceptive validation of a spontaneous speech corpus. This model enables the pragmatic analysis of the phenomenon.