I'm working out an idea for future linguistics research...keeping with my dissertation, I'm interested in the intonation of politeness as played out in Hawaii Creole English.
this brings several different things into the picture...things that need to be identified and planned for....so I need to design my experiment keeping in mind what I know about interactions and speaking styles...pragmatics and social implications.
anyway....
it's a start....and I'd love the chance to start writing something again.
like always... I'm looking at a universal thing that manifests in different ways cross linguistically -this time.... politeness....to see how politeness overlays upon and utterance via intonation. What is interesting in HCE is that....there's a certain level of informality which is inherent to the language....in addition to this...HCE tends to drop words that either disrupt the prosodic rules...or are not necessary to the message...for example.... a question ... Do you wanna go to the beach? ends up being, "Eh, you like go beach, brah?
My question is....given what I researched with regard to the declarative/interrogative distinction... (Murphy, 2013) what would a polite question look like? what about a polite declarative? How would different utterances be perceived? what is the distinction made? is this a salient distinction?
so....there it is....looking at linguistic stuff to contribute to the growing knowledge of human language.
bam.
peace...and love....and linguistics....and intonation, the music of language.
Dr. Murphy :)
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