| Project/Area Number |
13410133
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
英語・英米文学
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
WATANABE Shinichiro Osaka University, Faculty of Language and Culture, Professor, 言語文化部, 教授 (90116145)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
IMAI Mitsunori Setsunan University, Faculty of International Language and Culture, Professor, 国際言語文化学部, 教授 (60034584)
WATANABE Hideki Osaka University, Faculty of Language and Culture, Associate Professor, 言語文化部, 助教授 (30191787)
OHMORI Ayako Osaka University, Faculty of Language and Culture, Associate Professor, 言語文化部, 助教授 (70213866)
TABATA Tomoji Osaka University, Faculty of Language and Culture, Associate Professor, 言語文化部, 助教授 (10249873)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2004
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2004)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥14,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥14,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥2,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥4,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,800,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥4,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,900,000)
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| Keywords | English stylistics / corpus / rhetoric / metaphor / concordance / formulaic expression / rhyming slang / nineteenth-century prose / BNC / 認知言語学 / コンピュータ利用 / コーパス言語学 / 文体論 / 英語史 / 比喩表現 / Oxford English Dictionary / 散文と韻文 / 脚韻 / データベース |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of the research is to make a comprehensive study of English style from Old English to Present-day English by using an electronic database. The database used consists mainly of commercially available databases, but we constructed a database for a specific purpose when necessary. Drawing on the electronic database each of our researchers has made the following achievements in the past four years.
Shinichiro Watanabe worked on the style of Present-day English : he published papers on some grammatical and lexical features of rhyming slang, which is now widely used, and not regionally restricted, and on the role of repetition in English stylistics.
Mitsunori Imai studied the style of Middle English ; specifically he published works including those on the role of repetition in Middle English poems and the problem of how a line begins in Middle English merical romances.
Hideki Watanabe worked on the style of Old English ; he published papers including those on Beowulf, aspects of meaning of the OE noun-verb combination, fixed formulaic expressions in OE, the Biblical phrase and words and examples in the OED derived from the characters of Shakespeare's plays.
Ayako Ohmori studies the style of Modern English ; particularly she published papers on a variety of metaphorical expressions such as earth, air, water and fire metaphor and addressed herself to the problem how these metaphors relate to cognition of the mind.
Tomoji Tabata studied the style of Modern English prose, he published papers including those on methods for a corpus-based analysis, corpus stylistics, a case study of the style of Dickens' novels by analyzing the distribution of ly adverbs.
We co-authored the book titled Approaches to Style and Discourse in English published from the Osaka University of Press in 2004, in which we published part of our achievements in our project.
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