| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this research project, we have elucidated the semantic mechanism underlying a certain number of rhetorical utterances around irony, from the point of view of the "Argumentative Polyphony Theory", a French linguistic theory. In our research subject are included not only such rhetorical figures as irony, litotes and euphemism, but also "banter" consisting in seemingly disparaging close friends, or "home-gorosi", a kind of irony that can be translated as“praising for killing”: by planting sarcastic content in apparently praiseful words. Throughout this project, we have also introduced successfully the above-mentioned theory in Japan where it is not well-known, which was also an important outcome.
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