| Project/Area Number |
21K12977
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02060:Linguistics-related
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
Telegina Maria 東京大学, 東京カレッジ, 特任助教 (80870071)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Keywords | Japanese linguistics / Linguistics / Temporal / Spatial / Mental Lexicon / Japanese / mental lexicon / time / space / Time / Space / Discourse / English / word associations / linguistics |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
Space and time are the core concept of our perception and speech.
In this project, through analysis of textual and experimental data within the framework of cognitive linguistics, I will conduct a parallel investigation of the two domains of mental lexicon and strategies of temporal and spatial description in English and Japanese.
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this project, we collected data from corpora and word associations and analysed as networks. Our findings confirmed previous results that a semantic network based on corpora differs from one based on word associations. These networks represent different dimensions of time and space concepts; word associations represent socio-cultural knowledge and corpus represents the ways we write and speak about time and space. The word association data collection yielded over 750,000 responses, aiding our investigation of the mental lexicon. Preliminary results of the analysis revealed various concepts of time and space, from abstract notions to specific references such as calendars. Our ongoing exploration of time and space description has led to a discovery. We've identified a pattern based on temae/oku or closer to the speaker/further away dimensions, which has previously been unexplored in studies on space in Western languages.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
Understanding the temporal and spatial concepts of language and culture is crucial for learning how native speakers perceive and position themselves in the world. This study helps in comprehending modern-day Japan language from within the scope of cognitive linguistics.
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