摘要：Expressing interpersonal relationships varies from language to language. Numerousstudies explore morphological or other means of expressing a tous/vous relationship.To our knowledge, no research has been done on whether the phonic realization has ashare in mapping a T or V shade onto an utterance. The present study presents theresults of such research. After the corpus was compiled and T and V utterancescategorized, we measured pauses and melody contours, and we identified the pitchaccent placement. Then, we interpreted the data sociolinguistically. The data point totwo areas worth further examination – phonetic and sociological: a) a tendency wasobserved in T vs. V encounters with regard to the sociological parameter of age; b) theAmerican culture seems to apply the model of “dispersion” rather than bipolarity,which makes it an intricate task to collect a sufficient number of V encounters providingfor statistically significant data.
关键词：social deixis; T/V forms; temporal/force/tone modulation of a speech signal;ethnomethodological description; sociolinguistic interpretation
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