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Discourse presentation in present-tense narratives

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K02820
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field English linguistics
Research InstitutionSenshu University

Principal Investigator

Ikeo Reiko  専修大学, 国際コミュニケーション学部, 教授 (20216485)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 中尾 雅之  鳥取大学, 地域学部, 准教授 (00733403)
重松 恵梨  広島大学, 人間社会科学研究科(文), 助教 (80884113)
Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2021-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2020)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Keywords英語学 / 文体論 / 話法 / 語りの時制 / 21世紀現在時制小説 / 20世紀過去時制小説 / 直接話法 / 間接話法 / 物語の語りの時制 / 現在時制の小説 / 時制 / コーパス / 過去時制の小説 / 自由間接話法
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The use of the present tense for narrative fiction has been more common in the 21st century. This research investigates how characters' speech and thoughts are presented in present-tense narrative, comparing the usage with that found within past-tense fiction in the 20th century. The data of this research consists of two corpora: a corpus of present-tense narratives and a corpus of past-tense narratives. Both the corpora were annotated using two annotation systems: a part-of-speech tagging device and an XML-conformant mark-up system, categorizing speech, writing and thought presentation. The texts of present-tense fiction were analysed quantitatively and qualitatively by comparing these two corpora. Present-tense narrative and past-tense narrative share a similar amount of speech presentation while present-tense narrative tends to have less narration and a larger amount of characters' thought presentation.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

英語小説において、語りに現在時制が広く用いられるようになったのは、21世紀に入ってからであり、本研究はその包括的なデータが入手可能になってから世界的にも最も早くその文体研究に着手したものである。現在時制小説を数量的に分析するだけでなく、文体論、特に話法の視点から過去時制小説と比較した本研究は、現代の現在時制小説の物語論、文体論、話法の研究の先駆けとして、今後の発展に大いに貢献するものである。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2020 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (23 results)

All 2020 2019 2018 2017

All Journal Article (8 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 6 results,  Open Access: 3 results) Presentation (15 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 11 results,  Invited: 4 results)

  • [Journal Article] Memory, Narrative, and Authenticity in Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills2020

    • Author(s)
      Nakao Masayuki
    • Journal Title

      Online Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association

      Volume: - Pages: 1-14

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Expressing character’s point of view in the present-tense narrative: The case of Ali Smith’s How to Be Both2020

    • Author(s)
      Shigematsu Eri
    • Journal Title

      Online Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association

      Volume: - Pages: 1-15

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] ‘Colloquialization’ in fiction: A corpus-driven analysis of present-tense fiction2019

    • Author(s)
      Ikeo Reiko
    • Journal Title

      Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

      Volume: 28 Issue: 3 Pages: 280-304

    • DOI

      10.1177/0963947019868894

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] ‘Colloquialization’ in fiction: a corpus-driven analysis of present-tense fiction2019

    • Author(s)
      Reiko Ikeo
    • Journal Title

      Language and Literature

      Volume: ー

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Defoe’s Psychological Realism: The Effect of Directness in Indirect Consciousness Representation Categories2018

    • Author(s)
      Eri Shigematsu
    • Journal Title

      Language and Literature

      Volume: 27 (2) Issue: 2 Pages: 71-85

    • DOI

      10.1177/0963947018782008

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Unshared presuppositions and assumptions in Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood2018

    • Author(s)
      Reiko Ikeo
    • Journal Title

      Style

      Volume: 52.3

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Interdisciplinary approach to remembering modes: The case of Defoe’s fictional autobiographies2018

    • Author(s)
      Eri Shigematsu
    • Journal Title

      Online Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA)

      Volume: なし Pages: 1-11

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] The language of experience: representations of perception in the novel2018

    • Author(s)
      Eri Shigematsu
    • Journal Title

      近代英語研究

      Volume: 34 Pages: 27-34

    • NAID

      40021734436

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] A corpus stylistic comparison of speech presentation of 21st-century present-tense fiction and 20th-century past-tense fiction2020

    • Author(s)
      Reiko Ikeo, Masayuki Nakao, Eri Shigematsu
    • Organizer
      the 46th Conference of the Japan Association for English Corpus Studies
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 現在時制と小説 : 過去時制語りから現在時制語りへ2020

    • Author(s)
      重松 恵梨
    • Organizer
      近代英語協会
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Speech, thought and writing presentation in present-tense fiction2019

    • Author(s)
      Ikeo Reiko
    • Organizer
      Osaka Symposium on Corpus Stylistics
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Pragmatics of present-tense fiction: a corpus stylistic approach2019

    • Author(s)
      Ikeo Reiko
    • Organizer
      The 16th International Pragmatics Conference
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Quiet narrators and pondering characters in present-tense fiction2019

    • Author(s)
      Ikeo Reiko
    • Organizer
      International Corpus Linguistics Conference 2019
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Memory, Narrative, and Authenticity in Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills2019

    • Author(s)
      Nakao Masayuki
    • Organizer
      PALA Conference 2019
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Expressing character’s point of view in the present-tense narrative: The case of Ali Smith’s How to Be Both2019

    • Author(s)
      Shigematsu Eri
    • Organizer
      PALA Conference 2019
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Speech, thought and writing presentation in present-tense fiction2019

    • Author(s)
      Reiko Ikeo
    • Organizer
      Osaka Symposium on Corpus Stylistics
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] The use of the progressive aspect in present-tense narrative2018

    • Author(s)
      Reiko Ikeo
    • Organizer
      PALA Conference 2018
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] A corpus-driven analysis of present-tense fiction2018

    • Author(s)
      Reiko Ikeo
    • Organizer
      The 4th Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] A corpus-based approach to present-tense fiction2018

    • Author(s)
      Reiko Ikeo
    • Organizer
      JACET Discourse-Pragmatics SIG
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Colloquialization' in fiction: a corpus-driven analysis of present-tense fiction2018

    • Author(s)
      Reiko Ikeo
    • Organizer
      Research group at Huddersfield University
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Discourse presentation in present-tense narrative: speech and thought presentation in Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies2017

    • Author(s)
      Reiko Ikeo
    • Organizer
      The 15th International Pragmatics Conference
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The use of ‘will’ in present tense Narrative2017

    • Author(s)
      Reiko Ikeo
    • Organizer
      The 9th International Corpus Linguistics Conference
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Interdisciplinary approach to remembering modes: The case of Defoe’s fictional autobiographies2017

    • Author(s)
      Eri Shigematsu
    • Organizer
      The 37th Annual Conference of the Poetics And Linguistics Association
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research

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Published: 2017-04-28   Modified: 2022-01-27  

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