| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
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| Research Abstract |
This research has investigated discourse functions of English cleft sentences and inference processes of their interpretations in discourse. The main outcomes obtained are(i) that the exhaustiveness implicatures appears to be conversational implicatures rather than conventional ones ;(ii) that reviewing Otake(2009), and his claim that information in the speaker's store of knowledge plays a crucial role in the interpretation of the It is that-construction, and that his claim that the no da-construction and its English counterparts can be analyzed in terms of the dichotomy of perception and cognition can be tenable.
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