A Study on the Historical Changes in the Usage of Japanese Demostratives
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26884041
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Japanese linguistics
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| Research Institution | Onomichi City University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Research Collaborator |
MATSUMOTO Tomoko
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-08-29 – 2016-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
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| Keywords | 指示詞 / 古典語 / 文法 / 日本語史 / 言語学 / 国語学 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research deals with the historical changes in the use of demonstratives in conversation. I examine this aspect by analyzing the idea of mental processes involved in choosing the timing for switching demonstratives for introducing new information in the case of classical Japanese. By doing this, the verbalization of the underlying "Politeness towards the hearer" can be pointed out as one of the historical changes that occurred in the Japanese language in the late Middle Ages.
(1) I show the main factor behind the differences between So-demonstratives and A-demonstratives in non-deictic use. (2) Focusing on the similarities and differences between demonstratives and interrogatives, I examine the strategy of So-demonstratives from the point of view of the so-called property of "blank"; I also compiled a database containing examples of demonstratives and interrogatives in the "Shomono" written in the Middle Ages.
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