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Research on integration of 'construal' in cognitive linguistics and 'sense' in philosophy of language

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K00551
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 02060:Linguistics-related
Research InstitutionWaseda University

Principal Investigator

Sakai Tomohiro  早稲田大学, 文学学術院, 教授 (00396839)

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 2020: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Keywords捉え方 / 意義 / 単文のパズル / 遂行発話 / アイロニー / 発語内効力 / 発話者 / 固有名詞 / ふり / ムーアのパラドックス / 質の格率 / 平叙文 / 主張力 / コミットメント / 話し手 / 命題の統一性 / 否定 / ポリフォニー / 認知言語学 / 外在主義 / 内在主義 / 心的辞書 / 意味 / 単称思想
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research has shown that polysemy can arise from different epistemic relations between the speaker and the object or state of affairs. For those who do not know the identity between Superman and Clark Kent, 'Superman leaps more tall buildings than Clark Kent' represents a relation between two individuals, while for those who know the identity it represents a relation between two aspects of one and the same individual. The constative use of 'I name this ship Queen Elizabeth' corresponds to the speaker's reflective construal of the ritual in which the sentence is uttered, while the performative use of the sentence corresponds to the speaker's projective construal. Similar analyses apply to ironical utterances. In many cases, the speaker's different construals of her own speech act are inscribed in the use (as well as the form) of linguistic expressions.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

従来の言語学では「上り坂 vs. 下り坂」など「同一対象・事態の捉え方の違いが言語形式の違いに反映されうる」と考えられてきた。本研究ではそれに加えて「同一の表現形式に話者の複数の認識論的状態が対応しうる」ことを示した。同一物指示の複数の名前を含む文(「スーパーマンはクラーク・ケントより多くのビルを飛び越える」)、アイロニー(「(梅雨の時期に)毎日本当にいい天気だね」)、遂行的発話(「開会を宣言します」)などさまざまな言語表現に、話者が自分自身の言語行為を複数の視点から捉える能力が反映されている。これに基づき言語形式のみを手がかりとする言語学の限界を明らかにし、言語学と心の哲学との接続を図った。

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

    (12 results)

All 2021 2020 2019 2018 Other

All Journal Article (5 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 5 results,  Open Access: 5 results) Presentation (5 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Invited: 2 results) Remarks (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] On the Equivalence of the Pretense Account and Echoic Account of Irony2021

    • Author(s)
      SAKAI, Tomohiro
    • Journal Title

      Tokyo University Linguistic Papers (TULIP)

      Volume: 43 Pages: 221-246

    • NAID

      120007166752

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] To Commit, Not to Commit, or to Commit to Not Committing: Review Article of Nayuta MIKI (2019) Psychological and Public Aspects of Speaker Meaning: Toward a Philosophy of Communication, Tokyo: Keisoshobo, 285pp, in Japanese.2020

    • Author(s)
      SAKAI, Tomohiro, KINOSHITA, Soichiro
    • Journal Title

      Tokyo University Linguistic Papers (TULIP)

      Volume: 42 Pages: 195-222

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] On Japanese generic names: are they part of the language?2020

    • Author(s)
      SAKAI, Tomohiro
    • Journal Title

      Namn i skrift. Names in Writing

      Volume: 44 Pages: 307-324

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Between Performatives and Constatives: Construal in Speech Acts2019

    • Author(s)
      Tomohiro SAKAI
    • Journal Title

      Tokyo University Linguistic Papers

      Volume: 41 Pages: 259-277

    • NAID

      120006732599

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Singular Thought in Non-Singular Propositions: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective2018

    • Author(s)
      Tomohiro Sakai
    • Journal Title

      Tokyo University Linguistic Papers

      Volume: 40 Pages: 211-227

    • NAID

      120006529759

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] Polysemy Across Languages and Lexical Externalism2021

    • Author(s)
      SAKAI, Tomohiro
    • Organizer
      Pragmasophia 3, Noto, Italy (Online)
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 叙述の非言語学2021

    • Author(s)
      酒井 智宏
    • Organizer
      基礎言語学研究会設立記念シンポジウム「言語(研究)の基礎」
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Toward an Internalist Construal of Semantic Externalism2019

    • Author(s)
      Tomohiro SAKAI
    • Organizer
      Categorisation claire vs approximative: a la recherche d'indices de differentiation
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] On Japanese Generic Names: Are They Part of the Language?2018

    • Author(s)
      Tomohiro Sakai
    • Organizer
      Namn i skrift/Names in Writing, Gothenburg University
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 認知言語学中上級: メンタル・スペースとその周辺2018

    • Author(s)
      酒井 智宏
    • Organizer
      日本言語学会2018年度夏期講座
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Remarks] Tomohiro SAKAI's Website

    • URL

      https://www.tomohirosakai.com

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report 2020 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] Tomohiro Sakai's Website

    • URL

      https://www.tomohirosakai.com

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report 2018 Research-status Report

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2023-01-30  

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