Prosody influence on (im)politeness perception in Chinese-German intercultural communication

IF 1.4 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Journal of Politeness Research-Language Behaviour Culture Pub Date : 2023-09-15 DOI:10.1515/pr-2022-0043
Jiazhen Cao
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Abstract This paper aims to explore the influences of prosody on (im)politeness perception in intercultural communication. Based on empirical data collected in perceptual experiments, the paper compares the perception of the (im)politeness prosodic properties of L1 German speakers and L2 German speakers of Chinese origin. It was found that the two subject groups show clear distinctions in their (im)politeness perceptions and that prosodic features exert different impacts on (im)politeness perception: L2 German speakers of Chinese origin perceive lower acoustic intensity, more pauses, and lower muscle tension as indicators of higher level of politeness, whereas the opposite holds true for L1 German speakers. In addition, the former demonstrate higher sensitivity to speech rate and modal particle stress than the latter. The study’s findings indicate that (im)politeness and prosody perception are influenced by people’s first language and home-grown culture, and a prosodic mitigation strategy may not be fully applicable in intercultural communication.
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韵律对中德跨文化交际中礼貌感知的影响
摘要本文旨在探讨跨文化交际中韵律对礼貌感知的影响。基于感知实验收集的经验数据,本文比较了母语为德语的人和母语为汉语的德语的人对礼貌韵律特性的感知。研究发现,两组被试在礼貌感知上表现出明显的差异,韵律特征对礼貌感知的影响也有所不同:第二语言的中国德语使用者认为较低的声强度、更多的停顿和较低的肌肉张力是礼貌水平较高的指标,而第一语言的德语使用者则相反。此外,前者对语速和语态粒子应力的敏感性高于后者。研究结果表明,礼貌和韵律感知受到母语和本土文化的影响,韵律缓解策略可能并不完全适用于跨文化交际。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Politeness Research responds to the urgent need to provide an international forum for the discussion of all aspects of politeness as a complex linguistic and non-linguistic phenomenon. Politeness has interested researchers in fields of academic activity as diverse as business studies, foreign language teaching, developmental psychology, social psychology, sociolinguistics, linguistic pragmatics, social anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, communication studies, and gender studies. The journal provides an outlet through which researchers on politeness phenomena from these diverse fields of interest may publish their findings and where it will be possible to keep up to date with the wide range of research published in this expanding field.
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