| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The focus of this research project lies in the sentence final particles as the major forms to express modality in discourse of Cantonese. (Modality here refers to the subjective attitudes of a speaker concerning the contents of his/her utterance.) In this study we revealed various aspects of the polyfunctionalization of some sentence final particles and explored the correlation between the phonetic forms and functions of such particles. Specifically, we analyzed the cases in which a certain linguistic form came to bear, through functional extension, another discourse function in addition to its original one. We found out that in each case the original lexical meaning or function was also preserved in the discourse function of the particle. In addition, we suggested that tones and finals might bear certain kinds of meaning/function in the case of the sentence final particles which specifically deal with a message-conveying strategy.
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