超音段特征对会话含义的影响
超音段特征对会话含义的影响
Suprasegmental features is a concept within the scope of phonetics. The most impotant suprasegmental feature is the relationship among pith, intensity of sound, length of sound, and quality of sound. They show tone, stress, and rhythm in phonetics.
1,the influence of tone on word‟s meaning transferring
English famous linguists Roger Kingdon said: phonetics is language body, while tone is soul. English tone generally divided into five kinds: rising tone, rising-falling tone, falling-rising tone, falling tone and rising-falling-rising tone. People can use tone inflection to express their feelings, and imply their attitudes, including courtesy, carefulness, sympathy, and distain. For example, a simple word such as „Oh ‟, can express speaker different feelings.
“Marry, you know I don‟t like that.”
“Oh ” (low falling tone)
When Marry show her friend something excited, apparently her friend don‟t like. At this time, Marry used low falling tone to show her down feeling.
Cook in his book active intonation has one piece dialogue, happened in a restaurant:
----I must say the food here‟s cheap. And quite delicious.
----Well it‟s certainly cheap. (falling-rising tone)
----And the service…
----Very good. ( high head low tail)
----I particularly like that soup.
----Oh. (low falling tone)
----You mean you didn‟t like it?
----It was all right. (low head rising tone)
----I see. But you must admit you liked the steak.
----Yes I liked the steak. (falling-rising tone)
----Oh dear. Well next time we‟ll go somewhere else.
In dialogue, two sides speakers in a certain degree followed Principle of Cooperation, and listeners understand speaker‟ meaning through his tone quality.