2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Study of Vocatives in Early Modern ‘Spoken' English : An Historical-Pragmatic Approach
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15520320
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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 |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Hosei University |
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Principal Investigator |
SHIINA Michi Hosei University, Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (20153405)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2004
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| Keywords | Vocative / Discourse Marker / Historical Pragmatics / Corpus-based approach / Politeness / Address terms / Social Networks / face |
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| Research Abstract |
My research has been devoted to an exploration of the linguistic properties of vocatives used in the Early Modern English period. Specifically, my primary concerns are what vocatives were used and how they were used in Early Modern English ‘gentry' comedies. As there are of course no authentic recorded data from the period, I have investigated a collection of drama texts in the Vocative-Focussed Socio-Pragmatic Corpus. By doing so, I hope to shed some light on the use of vocatives in the Early Modern English period.
Methodologically, I take a corpus-based approach, and combine quantitative and qualitative analyses in a historical pragmatic perspective. As a consequence, my research is interdisciplinary in nature in that it pivots on several linguistic fields, i.e.historical linguistics, pragmatics, stylistics, sociolinguistics, as well as corpus linguistics. In my thesis, compiling an annotated corpus is both an end product in itself as well as data.
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