A Review on the Studies of Shanghai Pragmatic Prosody

The unique charm of the study on Shanghai pragmatic prosody lies both in fact that culture is a melting pot where maritime and immigrant cultures meet rub shoulders, prosodic variation rapid development city. following features research are evident: 1) predominance individual prosody. focuses linguistic phenomena, does not systematically investigate as single object. 2) contexts usually divided into greetings farewells, invitations, suggestions, refusals, complaints. 3) Mostly descriptive. That is, existing dialect pragmatics dominated by descriptive recording phenomena.