2003 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Study of Inversion Structures in Discourse: Relevance -theoretic and Cognitive Approach
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14510509
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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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 | Joetsu University of Education |
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Principal Investigator |
KATO Masahiro Joetsu University of Education, Dep.of School Education, Professor, 学校教育学部, 教授 (00136623)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2002 – 2003
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| Keywords | inversion structure / Relevance Theory / information structure / cognitive effect / processing effort / cognitive grammar / metonymy link / corpus |
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| Research Abstract |
In this research, I have aimed to elucidate functional and pragmatic principles governing inversion structures in discourse in the framework of Relevance Theory and Cognitive Grammar. I have also built a database of English inversion structures in discourse. Specific results of the researches are as follows :
1.After discussing inadequacies of previous literature on English cleft constructions, I have demonstrated that exhaustiveness implicatures observed in cleft constructions are not conventional implicatures but conversational implicatures. [Kato(2002), Kato(2003a), Kato(2004)]
2.I have clarified the functional properties of inversion constructions in discourse in the framework of Information Structure. [Kato(2004)]
3.I have proposed new teaching materials regarding inversion sentences, double object constructions, and preparatory it constructions in the framework of Relevance Theory. [Togashi and Kato(2003)]
4.I have constructed a database, which stores examples of inversion structures, cleft constructions, and data concerned with information structures and Relevance Theory.
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