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Computational semantics and pragmatics of politeness phenomena

Research Project

Project/Area Number 25370441
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Linguistics
Research InstitutionAoyama Gakuin University

Principal Investigator

McCready E.S.  青山学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (30433692)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) BEKKI Daisuke  お茶の水女子大学, 基幹研究院, 准教授 (90431783)
Research Collaborator Asher Nicholas  フランス国立科学研究センター(CNRS), トゥールーズ情報学研究所(IRIT), 教授
Project Period (FY) 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Keywords言語学 / 意味論 / 語用論 / 尊敬語 / 形式意味論 / 形式語用論 / 敬語 / semantics / pragmatics / expressive meaning / Japanese / Thai / honorification / politeness
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Politeness is universal. We find it in every language and culture; understanding how it works, and
why, is crucial for a clear picture of human language and linguistic behavior. In our research, we have begun to address these questions, focusing on Japanese, which is a language with a highly articulated and complex system of politeness, both at the level of language itself, and at the level of how that language is used. In broad outline, we have provided the first full formal theory of politeness in language, by utilizing techniques (some developed by the project participants, some new) in formal semantics and pragmatics to analyze politeness phenomena.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2015 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (34 results)

All 2015 2014 2013 Other

All Journal Article (11 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results,  Peer Reviewed: 10 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 8 results,  Open Access: 5 results) Presentation (16 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results,  Invited: 4 results) Book (6 results) Remarks (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Reference and Linguistic Intuitions2015

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready
    • Journal Title

      Annals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science

      Volume: 23 Pages: 33-44

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Against Lexical Self-Reference2015

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready
    • Journal Title

      Linguistic Inquiry

      Volume: 46 Pages: 742-754

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Honorific Composition in Glue2015

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready, K. Kudo and K. Kusumoto
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of TLS 14

      Volume: 14 Pages: 2-17

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] CI via DTS2015

    • Author(s)
      Daisuke Bekki and E. McCready
    • Journal Title

      New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence

      Volume: none Pages: 23-36

    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Expressives and Expressivity2015

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready
    • Journal Title

      Open Linguistics

      Volume: 1 Pages: 53-70

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Using Descriptions2015

    • Author(s)
      Daniel Gutzmann and Eric McCready
    • Journal Title

      Empirical Issues in Syntax and Semantics

      Volume: 10 Pages: 55-72

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Discourse-Level Politeness and Implicature2014

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready and Nicholas Asher
    • Journal Title

      Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence

      Volume: 8417 Pages: 69-81

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] A Semantics for Honorifics with Reference to Thai2014

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of PACLIC

      Volume: 28 Pages: 513-521

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Japanese Honorification: Compositionality and Expressivity.2014

    • Author(s)
      Narumi Watanabe, Daisuke Bekki and Eric McCready
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of FAJL

      Volume: 7 Pages: 265-276

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] CI via DTS.2014

    • Author(s)
      Daisuke Bekki and Eric McCready
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of LENLS

      Volume: 11 Pages: 110-123

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Honorific Denotations2014

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of LENLS

      Volume: 11 Pages: 152-165

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Presentation] A Unified Analysis of (Some) Discourse Particles in Japanese and Thai2015

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready
    • Organizer
      TEAL
    • Place of Presentation
      Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    • Year and Date
      2015-06-13
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification2015

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready
    • Organizer
      WAFL
    • Place of Presentation
      York University, UK
    • Year and Date
      2015-06-05
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] On the Semantics of Pragmatic Particles2015

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready
    • Organizer
      SEALS
    • Place of Presentation
      Payap University, Thailand
    • Year and Date
      2015-05-28
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Honorifics: Meaning and Use2015

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready
    • Organizer
      Department of Linguistics
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Delaware, USA
    • Year and Date
      2015-03-17
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] The Semantics and Pragmatics of Honorification2015

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready
    • Organizer
      Department of Linguistics
    • Place of Presentation
      Cornell University, USA
    • Year and Date
      2015-03-12
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] A Semantics for Honorifics with Reference to Thai2014

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready
    • Organizer
      PACLIC 28
    • Place of Presentation
      Thailand
    • Year and Date
      2014-12-13
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] CI via DTS2014

    • Author(s)
      Daisuke Bekki and Eric McCready
    • Organizer
      LENLS
    • Place of Presentation
      Tokyo (Keio)
    • Year and Date
      2014-11-22 – 2014-11-23
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Honorific Denotations2014

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready
    • Organizer
      LENLS 10
    • Place of Presentation
      Tokyo (Keio)
    • Year and Date
      2014-11-22 – 2014-11-23
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Politeness and Expressivity2014

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready
    • Organizer
      ELSJ Symposium on Discourse Expressions and Information Structure
    • Place of Presentation
      Tokyo
    • Year and Date
      2014-11-08
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Rational Belief and Evidence-Based Update2014

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready
    • Organizer
      IEAS Conference on Rationality
    • Place of Presentation
      Taipei (Academica Sinica)
    • Year and Date
      2014-08-14
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Japanese Honorification: Compositionality and Expressivity2014

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready, Daisuke Bekki and Narumi Watanabe
    • Organizer
      FAJL
    • Place of Presentation
      Tokyo (ICU)
    • Year and Date
      2014-06-26 – 2014-06-28
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Japanese Honorification: Compositionality and Expressivity2014

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready, Daisuke Bekki, Narumi Watanabe
    • Organizer
      FAJL 7
    • Place of Presentation
      ICU
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Honorific Composition2013

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready, E. Hirasaki, K. Ichida, K. Kudo, K. Kusumoto
    • Organizer
      TLS 13
    • Place of Presentation
      UTexas-Austin, USA
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Strategic Politeness2013

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready, Nicholas Asher, Soumya Paul
    • Organizer
      CIL 19
    • Place of Presentation
      UGeneva, Switzerland
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Quantification with Pejoratives

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready, Daniel Gutzmann
    • Organizer
      DGfS Workshop on Pejoration
    • Place of Presentation
      Marburg, Germany
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Discourse-level Politeness and Implicature

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready, Nicholas Asher
    • Organizer
      LENLS 10
    • Place of Presentation
      Keio University
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Reliability in Pragmatics2015

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready
    • Total Pages
      220
    • Publisher
      Oxford
    • Related Report
      2015 Annual Research Report 2014 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Quantification with Pejoratives, in Pejoration2015

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready, Daniel Gutzmann
    • Publisher
      Johns Benjamins
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Formal Approaches to Semantics and Pragmatics2014

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready, Kei Yoshimoto, Katsuhiko Yabushita
    • Total Pages
      374
    • Publisher
      Springer
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Reliability in Pragmatics2014

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready
    • Total Pages
      320
    • Publisher
      Oxford
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Discourse-Level Politeness and Implicature, in a Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence volume2014

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready, Nicholas Asher
    • Publisher
      Springer
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Winning Strategies in Politeness, in New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, no. 7856 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science2013

    • Author(s)
      Eric McCready, Nicholas Asher, Soumya Paul
    • Publisher
      Springer
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] Japanese Honorification

    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report

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Published: 2014-07-25   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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