1998 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Heterogeneity and Alteration of Speech Genre in Children Shadowed by One-Child Day Method

Research Project

Project/Area Number	09834002
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	談話(ディスコース)
Research Institution	University of Tsukuba
Principal Investigator	MORO Yuji Institution of Psychology, University of Tsukuba Associate Professor, 心理学系, 助教授 (50157939)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	SINOZAKI Koichi Tokyo Metropolitan University, Associate Professor, 人文学部, 助教授 (00206103)
Project Period (FY)	1997 – 1998
Keywords	Discourse / Dialectal Japanese / Common Japanese / One-Child Day Method / Language Competency / Discourse Repatoir / Alteration of Speech Genre
Research Abstract	This research is to investigate the developmental process of competency in alteration between common Japanese and dialectal Japanese, using shadowing method. Children in Japan use and alter the varitte of discourse repatoir in their mundane life. As one of the most inportant communictional competency, this alteration of repatoir has to be included. Shadowing method, in which children are followed up by ethnographers and video camera, reveals the qualitative variety of children's discourse repatoir and its alteration according to their everyday life events. We gathered three whole-day data of two children in Yamagata and Tokyo in VCR and ACR.Law materials are transcribed and analysed according to desciriptive linguistic way and discourse analytic way.

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