A French-Japanse contrastive study on textual structure based on the analysis of narration and fillers by using new corpora

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02522
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Osaka Prefecture University
• Principal Investigator: TAKAGAKI Yumi 大阪府立大学, 人間社会システム科学研究科, 教授 (60253126)
• Research Collaborator: Bergounioux Gabriel オルレアン大学, 教授 ; 森田 美里 龍谷大学, 非常勤講師
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: テクスト / 親族名詞 / 舌打ち / 名詞文

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This contrastive study of Japanese and French focused on narration and fillers. For written texts, we have shown that the schema of four different utterance levels proposed by J.-M. Adam is effective in explaining the ambiguity proper to certain kinship nouns. As for oral discourses, by analyzing the functions of clicks in spontaneous speech, we have identified their characteristics as being similar to fillers. Our data were primarily obtained from large corpora recently made public, particularly the ESLO corpus. With this study, we have established a foundation for the contrastive study of text structures in Japanese and French.

Free Research Field

フランス語学