TITLE:
A Review on the Studies of Shanghai Pragmatic Prosody
AUTHORS:
Qianni Xu, Huangmei Liu
KEYWORDS:
Shanghai Wu, Socio-Prosody, Pragmatics, Prosody
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.11 No.2,
February
9,
2023
ABSTRACT: The unique charm of the study on Shanghai pragmatic prosody lies both in
the fact that Shanghai culture is a melting pot culture where maritime and
immigrant cultures meet and rub shoulders, and in the prosodic variation in the
rapid development of the city. The following features of Shanghai pragmatic
prosody research are evident: 1) The predominance of individual pragmatic
prosody. The study of Shanghai pragmatic prosody focuses on individual
linguistic phenomena, and does not systematically investigate pragmatic prosody
as a single object. 2) The pragmatic prosody contexts are usually divided into
greetings and farewells, invitations, suggestions, refusals, and complaints. 3)
Mostly descriptive. That is, the existing Shanghai dialect pragmatics research
is dominated by descriptive pragmatics and focuses on recording pragmatic
phenomena.