Experimental Study on the Relatedness in Chinese between Tonal Suggestiveness and Product Attributes in the Category of Cars
Abstract
This paper aims at finding whether in Chinese there is relatedness between the tones and the product attributes by an experiment on tone suggestiveness. The experiment shows that in automobile brand naming, the rising tone is the most favorable one for all types of cars, other tonal preference varies depending on the attributes of the cars as follows: the high tone is the second most favored for the safe and comfortable type; falling tone is favored for the fashionable type; the high tone and the dipping tone share almost the same preference for the environment-friendly and the luxury type; and for the powerful type, the falling tone is the second most favored. Besides, the experiment also shows that there is a different tonal preference between the male and female subjects for the naming of safe and comfortable automobiles: male subjects favor the rising for all the types, while the females high tone for the naming of safe and comfortable automobiles.
Key words: tonal language, tone suggestiveness, product attributes, brand naming
Résumé: Cet article vise à trouver s’il existe, en chinois, une relation entre les intonations et les attributs du produit en faisant un essai sur la suggestivité tonale. Cet essai montre que dans la dénomination des marques automobiles, le ton montant est le plus favorisé pour toutes sortes de voiture, d’autres préférences tonaux varient selon les attributs de voiture comme ci –dessous : le ton haut est le deuxième favori pour la gamme sûre et comfortable, le ton descendant est favorisé par la gamme à la mode, le ton haut et le ton baissant bénéficie d’une préférence presque égale de la gamme environnement-amical et la gamme de luxe, et pour la gamme puissante, le ton descendant est le deuxième favori. En outre, cet essai montre aussi qu’il existe une préférence différente dans la dénomination des automobiles sûrs et comfortables entre les hommes et les femmes : les hommes ont une préférence pour le ton montant pour toutes les gammes , tandis que les femmes préfère le ton haut pour dénommer la gamme sûre et comfortable.
Mots-Clés: langue avec des tons, suggestivité tonale, attributs du produit, dénomination des marques
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PDFDOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/j.css.1923669720080404.004
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