The Research on the Procedural Meaning of the Japanese and English Discourse Connectives and the Pragmatic Inference
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17520330
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Kyushu University |
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Principal Investigator |
OTSU Takahiro Kyushu University, Faculty of Languages and Cultures, Associate Professor (90253525)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2007
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2007)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,610,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
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| Keywords | Relevance Theory / discourse connective / procedure / pragmatic inference / "after all" / datte / cognitive gap / 認知効果 / 文脈想定 / 認知領域 / 関連性 / 概念的意味 |
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| Research Abstract |
I have attempted to investigate, within the relevance-theoretic and corpus-based framework, the procedural meaning of the English discourse connective after all and the Japanese discourse connective datte, and the pragmatic inference involved in the interpretation of the utterances in which they occur. The claim of this research is that the interpretation of the utterances including these two expressions comprises a pragmatic term 'previous assumption' besides 'conclusion' and 'evidence', both of which are traditionally accepted, and that the procedure encoded by after all and datte is to process 'evidence' in order to fill the cognitive gap between 'conclusion' and 'evidence'. This claim implies that the two discourse connectives convey emotion and will as well as logic. When the speaker gives evidence to his or her conclusion by using after all, it gives the addressee no option but to accept the conclusion. Likewise, when the speaker intends to perform different types of speech acts--justification and agreement--by using datte, the speaker's emotion and will are conveyed in the way the addressee's assumption is adjusted to conform to the speaker's conclusion in the case of justification, whereas the speaker's assumption gets closer to the addressee's assumption in the case of agreement. Despite the fact that datte occurs in these different contexts, the speaker using it intends to minimize the cognitive gap between his or her assumption and the addressee's. This aspect of after all and datte is made evident from the fact that they are commonly used in a colloquial conversation.
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