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Empirical and theoretical investigations of the variation of conventional implicatures: With special reference to viewpoint and dependency

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K00531
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 02060:Linguistics-related
Research InstitutionKobe University (2019-2021)
Mie University (2018)

Principal Investigator

Sawada Osamu  神戸大学, 人文学研究科, 准教授 (40598083)

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2022-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Keywordsconventional implicature / scalarity / expressives / projective meaning / perspective / dependency / negative polarity item / modality / degree expressions / negative polarity items / minimizers / speech act / information structure / contrastiveness / non-at-issueness / comparatives / expressive / mirativity / attitude / emotion / embedding / (in)dependence / variation
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study examined the variation of conventional implicature (CI), particularly in terms of point of view and dependency. Regarding point of view, the study focused on the interpretation of CI expressions in an embedded environment and showed that the way CI takes a point of view (either speaker-oriented or subject-oriented) is determined by various contextual factors. Regarding dependence, the study focused on CI expressions that co-occur with modality and negation (e.g., expressive nani-mo `what-mo' and the expressive totemo `very') and explained their dependent behavior in terms of use-conditions and a general pragmatic principle. Furthermore, this study investigated the interpretation of mirative expressions, the discourse structure of pragmatic comparative expressions and inferential use discourse-expressions, and considered the ways in which CIs interact with discourse structure and conversational implicature.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究では、慣習的推意(conventional implicature) (CI)の自律性について新たな現象から考察している。これまで、CIは狭義の意味論レベルの意味から独立した意味として捉えられてきた(Grice 1975; Potts 2005)。本研究では、モダリティや否定と共起するCI表現(例:感情表出的な「とても」、「何も」、「NPのことだ」)やテンスの曖昧性を引き起こすCI表現(例:「~なんて・とは」)等、文中の他の言語表現や文全体の意味と相互作用を引き起こすCI表現に焦点を当て、CIは自立した意味ステータスを有しているものの、他の言語部門と密接に関わっていることを明らかにした。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2021 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (47 results)

All 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018

All Journal Article (23 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 7 results,  Open Access: 4 results) Presentation (23 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 11 results,  Invited: 3 results) Book (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Information Structure of the Japanese Mirative Demonstrative ano2022

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu and Jun Sawada
    • Journal Title

      神戸言語学論叢

      Volume: 13 Pages: 16-34

    • DOI

      10.24546/81013090

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] The Japanese Reactive Attitudinal <i>Nani-mo</i>: A New Class of Negative Polarity Items2021

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu
    • Journal Title

      GENGO KENKYU (Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan)

      Volume: 160 Issue: 0 Pages: 43-68

    • DOI

      10.11435/gengo.160.0_43

    • ISSN
      0024-3914, 2185-6710
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] The Japanese reactive attitudinal nani-mo: Polarity sensitivity and the function of objection2021

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu
    • Journal Title

      Japanese/Korean Linguistics

      Volume: 28 Pages: 131-145

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Cross-linguistic variations in the interpretation of tense in mirative sentences: A view from Japanese mirative expressions nante/towa2021

    • Author(s)
      Osamu Sawada and Jun Sawada
    • Journal Title

      Expressive Meaning Across Linguistic Levels and Frameworks

      Volume: NA Pages: 216-247

    • DOI

      10.1093/oso/9780198871217.003.0011

    • ISBN
      9780198871217, 9780191914225
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Interpretations of sense-based minimizers in Japanese and English: Local and global sense-based measurements2021

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Workshop of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS 18)

      Volume: 18 Pages: 161-174

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Scalar properties of Japanese and English sense-based minimizers2021

    • Author(s)
      Osamu Sawada
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America

      Volume: 6 (1) Issue: 1 Pages: 433-447

    • DOI

      10.3765/plsa.v6i1.4979

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] The ambiguity of tense in the Japanese mirative sentence with nante/towa.2020

    • Author(s)
      Osamu Sawada and Jun Sawada
    • Journal Title

      New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (JSAI-isAI 2019), Lecture Notes in Computer Science

      Volume: 12331 Pages: 325-340

    • DOI

      10.1007/978-3-030-58790-1_21

    • ISBN
      9783030587895, 9783030587901
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 「グライス語用論」2020

    • Author(s)
      澤田治
    • Journal Title

      『はじめての語用論―基礎から応用まで』

      Volume: N/A Pages: 24-40

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 「「NPのことだ(から)」の因果的推論の方向性」2020

    • Author(s)
      澤田淳・澤田治
    • Journal Title

      『日本語文法』

      Volume: 20(1) Pages: 37-52

    • NAID

      40022289669

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 「加藤泰彦著『ホーン『否定の博物誌』の論理』」2020

    • Author(s)
      澤田治
    • Journal Title

      『語用論研究』

      Volume: 21 Pages: 187-196

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] The ambiguity of tense in the Japanese mirative sentence with nante/towa2019

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu and Jun Sawada
    • Journal Title

      The Proceedings of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS) 16

      Volume: 16 Pages: 1-14

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 「序論―極性表現の構造・意味・機能―」2019

    • Author(s)
      澤田治・岸本秀樹・今仁生美
    • Journal Title

      『極性表現の構造・意味・機能』

      Volume: N/A Pages: 1-47

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 「感情表出表現として振る舞う否定極性表現の意味・機能について―「何も」と「とても」を中心に―」2019

    • Author(s)
      澤田治
    • Journal Title

      『極性表現の構造・意味・機能』

      Volume: N/A Pages: 311-334

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 「慣習的推意―インターフェースの観点から―」2019

    • Author(s)
      澤田治
    • Journal Title

      『言語におけるインターフェイス』

      Volume: N/A Pages: 138-152

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] The discourse-pragmatic properties of the Japanese negative intensifier totemo2019

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu
    • Journal Title

      『場面と主体性・主観性』

      Volume: N/A Pages: 593-613

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 「「のことだ(から)」の推論用法について―モダリティとの関係性を中心に―」2019

    • Author(s)
      澤田淳・澤田治
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the Modality Workshop

      Volume: 16 Pages: 101-113

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] The meaning and use of the Japanese mirative expressions nante/towa2019

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu and Jun Sawada
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the Modality Workshop

      Volume: 16 Pages: 89-100

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Interpretations of the embedded expressive motto in Japanese: Varieties of meaning and projectivity.2019

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu
    • Journal Title

      Secondary Content: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Side Issues

      Volume: N/A Pages: 341-375

    • DOI

      10.1163/9789004393127_014

    • ISBN
      9789004393127, 9789004393110
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Scalarity and alternatives of Japanese mora (letter)-based minimizers2019

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America

      Volume: 4 (21) Issue: 1 Pages: 1-15

    • DOI

      10.3765/plsa.v4i1.4525

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] On the meaning and use of the Japanese mora-based minimizers2019

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the Modality Workshop 15

      Volume: 15 Pages: 159-181

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Varieties of positive polarity minimizers in Japanese2018

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu
    • Journal Title

      Studies in Language and Literature

      Volume: 38 (No.1-2) Pages: 189-236

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] The Japanese negative totemo: From an unconditional expression to an expressive intensifier2018

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu
    • Journal Title

      The Proceedings of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (LENLS) 15

      Volume: 15 (paper 18) Pages: 1-14

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] On the Japanese NPI totemo: Between unconditionality and intensification2018

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the International Modality Workshop

      Volume: 14 Pages: 117-134

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] On the properties of expressivity and counter-expectation in the Japanese minimizer NPI kakera ‘piece’2022

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu
    • Organizer
      The 96th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] On the properties of expressivity and counter-expectation in the Japanese negative polarity kakera ‘piece’2022

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu
    • Organizer
      Kobe-NINJAL Linguistics Colloquium (日本語研究の最前線2)
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] The scalar contrastive wa in Japanese2021

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu
    • Organizer
      Syntax and Semantics Conference in Paris (CSSP 2021)
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Interpretations of sense-based minimizers in Japanese and English: Local and global sense-based measurements2021

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu
    • Organizer
      The Eighteenth International Workshop of Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 18 (LENLS18)
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 感情表出性を持つ不定表現の意味・機能2021

    • Author(s)
      澤田治
    • Organizer
      日本英文学会北海道支部第66 回大会 (シンポジウム「不定語研究の展開と展望」)
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Sense-based minimizers in Japanese and English: Speaker's experience, evaluation, and the relation with emotions2021

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu
    • Organizer
      ICU Linguistics Colloquium
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] The scalar properties of English and Japanese sense-based minimizers2021

    • Author(s)
      Osamu Sawada
    • Organizer
      The 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Japanese reactive attitudinal nani-mo: Polarity sensitivity and the pragmatic function of objection2020

    • Author(s)
      Osamu Sawada
    • Organizer
      Japanese/Korean Linguistics 28
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Sense-based minimizers in English and Japanese: Speaker's experience and classification of scales2020

    • Author(s)
      Osamu Sawada
    • Organizer
      International Conference on English Linguistics
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 日本語のモーラに基づく最小詞の (非) 字義的用法について : 形式意味論・対照言語学的アプローチ2020

    • Author(s)
      澤田治
    • Organizer
      Prosody and Grammar Festa 4
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] The ambiguity of tense in the Japanese mirative sentence with nante/towa2019

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu and Jun Sawada
    • Organizer
      Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 16 (LENLS 16)
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The interpretation of tense in the Japanese mirative expressions nante/towa.2019

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu and Jun Sawada
    • Organizer
      Functional Categories and Expressive Meaning
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 「推論用法の「NPのことだ(から)」の因果的特性について―形式、意味、談話のインターフェース―」2019

    • Author(s)
      澤田治・澤田淳
    • Organizer
      関西言語学会ワークショップ「日本語における意味と語用のインターフェース:談話表現を中心に」
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] The meaning and use of the Japanese mirative expressions nante/towa.2019

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu and Jun Sawada
    • Organizer
      The 16th Modality Workshop
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 「「のことだ(から)」の推論用法について―モダリティとの関係性を中心に―」2019

    • Author(s)
      澤田淳・澤田治
    • Organizer
      The 16th Modality Workshop
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] On the literal and non-literal interpretations of the Japanese mora-based minimizer2019

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu
    • Organizer
      The International Workshop on Degrees and Grammar: An East Asian Perspective (DeG 2019).
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The scalarity and alternatives of Japanese mora (letter)-based minimizers2019

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu
    • Organizer
      The 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] On the meaning and use of the Japanese mora-based minimizers2019

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu
    • Organizer
      The 15th Modality Workshop
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] The Japanese negative totemo: From an unconditional expression to an expressive intensifier2018

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu
    • Organizer
      Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics 15 (LENLS 15)
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Japanese inferential -no koto-da-(kara): Explicit and implicit causal marking2018

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu and Jun Sawada
    • Organizer
      Implicit and explicit marking of discourse relations: the comparison between causals vs. conditionals
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] On the Japanese NPI totemo: Between unconditionality and intensification2018

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu
    • Organizer
      The 14th International Modality Workshop
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Expressive NPIs: The case of the Japanese negative totemo2018

    • Author(s)
      Sawada, Osamu
    • Organizer
      Semantics and Pragmatics Workshop at Mie University
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 感情表出表現として振る舞う否定極性表現について2018

    • Author(s)
      澤田治
    • Organizer
      ワークショップ: 極性表現の構造・意味・機能
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 『極性表現の構造・意味・機能』2019

    • Author(s)
      澤田治・岸本秀樹・今仁生美
    • Total Pages
      400
    • Publisher
      開拓社
    • ISBN
      9784758922807
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report

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