| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
A long term ethnography of social groups relevant to university life, which began in FY29, was conducted and completed. This ethnography included fieldwork conducted during classes, club practice, social activities etc. Further data was collected during club competitions. Audio data was collected in both informal and formal settings. Additional video data was collected during club practice, and in controlled laboratory settings. Collected data was transcribed using standard discourse analysis markers and was compiled into searchable text files.
Key conversations have been fully transcribed and analysis of salient linguistic items has yielded strong results especially with respect to the social and discourse functions of youth-linked quotatives, rhetorical interrogatives as well as patterns of use of informal and formal verb form variants, i.e.MASU/PLAIN verb form variation. These results have been presented in both domestic and international settings with several further presentations planned for late 2018 and 2019. Due to the research stopping after one year (i.e. 14 months early), results have not been fully transcribed and analyzed, however, this work is ongoing and will continue well past the completion of the project.
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