| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
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: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research investigated how the use of Japanese demonstratives varies, depending on the social and the geographic factors. According to the experiments we had in Nagasaki university and Okayama university in 2014 and 2015, we discovered that their dialects affect to some extent the use of "So"-series demonstratives especially. We also studied the use of "a"-series demonstratives used in memory use. Our investigations strongly suggest that the "direct experience" is not needed as strongly as the previous studies have claimed. Instead, some kind of emotional factors of a speaker affect the selection of demonstratives in such dialects mentioned above.
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