General attitudinal meanings in RP intonation
| dc.contributor.author | Hlebec, Boris | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-22T07:51:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-08-22T07:51:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The article takes a cognitive view of the attitudinal meanings of RP intonation. A summary statement is included about previous authors’ views on attitudes conveyed by pitch direction. Data on intonation patterns concentrating on pitch level are followed by the labels of emotional attitudes from phonetic literature. These descriptive labels are brought into correlation with a large number of metaphoric phrases and fixed collocations and expressions which give a clue to structural metaphors for emotional attitudes. In this way, strict regularities in correspondences have been found between the triangle made up of nucleus + head variations, emotions as labelled in phonetic literature, and EMOTION IS TEMPERATURE metaphors. Metonymy also plays a part: emotion stands for a bodily sensation felt during the emotion. These regularities are believed to underlie and govern the use of intonation tunes. Expressing one’s general emotional attitude by means of varying pitch level is seen as a conjunction of two interrelated principal analogies: EMOTION = TEMPERATURE (metaphorically and metonymically) and VOICE PITCH = TEMPERATURE (in terms of the effect of vibrations of air molecules), which produces the expression of EMOTION by means of VOICE PITCH. Specifically, attitudes associated with a pleasant high temperature (warm) are conveyed by means of a combination of a high head and a high nucleus. The combination of the high head and the low nucleus emanates coolness (typically pleasant low temperature, untypically unpleasant low temperature). Attitudes associated with unpleasant low temperature (cold) are produced by a joint effect of a low head and a low nucleus, while associations with unpleasant high temperature (hot) are expressed as a unity of a low head and a high nucleus. | pl_PL |
| dc.identifier.citation | Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 44 (2008), pp. 275-295 | pl_PL |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0081-6272 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10593/19081 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pl_PL |
| dc.publisher | Adam Mickiewicz University | pl_PL |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | pl_PL |
| dc.title | General attitudinal meanings in RP intonation | pl_PL |
| dc.type | Artykuł | pl_PL |