| Project/Area Number |
25580085
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Research Collaborator |
BRITAIN David ベルン大学, 英語英文学部, 教授
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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| Keywords | しょ / パラオ日本語 / postcolonial Japanese / contact Japanese variety / Palauan Japanese / sho / discourse marker / tag / you know / dude / bro / ollei / nursery word / Japanese borrowing / 幼児語 / 日本語由来の借用語 / 呼び掛け語 / パラオ英語 / ポストコロニアル英語 / address term / vocative / Palauan English / Postcolonial English / 接触日本語変種 / 語用論的変異と変化 / でしょ（う） / だろ（う） / 接触言語変種 / pragmatic change / desho(o) / daro(o) / contact variety |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research project aims to explore similarities in discourse-pragmatic variation and change in contact varieties of languages from a cross-linguistic perspective. We have been investigating (a) to what extent the functional distributions and social stratifications of the tags, daro, desho and sho in Palauan Japanese are similar to those of eh and HRTs in NZ and AU English; (b) if there is a similar trajectory in the grammaticalization process between Palauan ollei and English dude.
Our findings have made theoretical contributions to the field of contact sociolinguistics; leading to a better understanding of (a) the common process of grammaticalization of address terms across different contact varieties, (b) the broader applicability of the concept of ‘vernacular universals’ (Chambers 2000) beyond phonological and morphosyntactic levels, as well as (c) the usefulness of the Dynamic Model (Schneider 2007) to identify different stages of formation of Palauan English.
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