1993 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Cognitive Scientific Studies of Spatio-Temporal Expressions in Japanese and English
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03610237
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
英語・英文学(アメリカ語･アメリカ文学)
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| Research Institution | KYOTO UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
YAMANASHI Masa-aki Kyoto University Dept.of Information Science Professor, 総合人間学部, 教授 (80107086)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1991 – 1993
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| Keywords | spatio-temporal expression / location marker / locational preposition / concrete meaning / abstract meaning / conceptual nature / metaphorical extension / time and space |
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| Research Abstract |
The lignuistic study of natural languages (especially, the study of linguistic expressions of location, time and space) is one of the most important research topics in the field of cognitive sciences. Little attention, however, has been paid to the elucidation of the underlying mechanisms which formally and conceptually characterize such linguistic expressions. In this research, we have investigated three basic problems concerning spatio-temporal expressions with special reference to Japanese and English. In the first year, we have examined the basic formal types of spatio-tempral expressions in Japanese and English (espetially, Japanese location markers and English locational prepositions). In the second year, the conceptual nature of Japanese and English spatio-temporal expressions was clarified. In the third year, we have investigated the underlying mechanisms which characterize the metaphorical extension of concrete meanings to abstract meanings in Japanese and English locational expressions.
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Research Products
(8 results)
