1997 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Styles of Contemporary English
| Project/Area Number |
07451098
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
英語・英米文学
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| Research Institution | KYOTO UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
TOYOTA Masanori Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters, Professor, 文学研究科, 教授 (30029681)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1995 – 1997
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| Keywords | Contemporary English / Styles of English / Stylistics / English Stylistics / Written English and Spoken English |
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| Research Abstract |
I have conducted an intensive survey of the 'Styles of Contemporary English'.
In spoken English I have described the salient features of spontaneous conversation, radio and television broadcast interviews and so on. As for unplanned conversation, I have discussed marked disfluency features of conversation, which are in fact indicative of 'relaxation' of the participants of conversational interaction. As for broadcast, I have pointed out a frequent use of some of the features of 'Estuary English'.
In written English I have placed an emphasis on the styles of newspapers and prose fiction. As for press writing, I have argued that the quality press and popular press in Britain are significantly different in style, since the former tends to employ abstract expressions while the latter concrete ones. I have also discussed the distribution of repetition and variation in sports reporting in newspapers and television broadcast. Focusing on the representation of conversation particularly in the novels of Kingsley Amis, I have shown that Amis's conversation is much more 'realistic' than his contemporaries.
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