| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this study, I investigated changes in honorific expressions in standard Japanese, and compared them to dialects. I dealt with the use of such expressions in speech acts where speakers are required to be polite. The results are as follows.
Among dialectical expressions, ren-yo imperatives have recently come to be used in Hiroshima dialects, but there are no falling accent forms, and thus they form a different system to that in Osaka dialects. There is also a difference in the use of negative-question-imperatives, which emerged in the Meiji period and are used frequently in Kansai dialects but not in Tokyo dialects. Among offering expressions, "kureru" can be used in Kagoshima dialects when offering something to a superior, whereas in modern standard Japanese, it cannot be used when offering something. In other dialects, "kureru" can be used when offering something to inferiors but not to superiors.
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