Reconstructing English Grammar in Terms of Cognitive Pragmatics

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02620
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: English linguistics
• Research Institution: Nara University
• Principal Investigator: UCHIDA Seiji 奈良大学, 教養部, 教授 (00108416)
• Research Collaborator: Noh Ein-Ju Inha大学, 教授
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 関連性理論 / 高次表意 / テクスト / ダイクシス / 一致現象

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The present research aims to reconstruct English grammar in terms of relevance-theoretic concepts, especially focusing on higher-level explicature phenomena and tense agreement in text, which have not been fully explained from traditional grammatical standpoints.
Two symposium papers were presented at the 24th conference of the Society of English Grammar and Usage (2017, Nara University) and the 35th conference of the English Linguistic Society of Japan (2018, Tohoku University). The 2017 paper discussed a unified pragmatic approach to spoken and written English and the 2018 focused on tense agreement in text. The former paper was published in the 2017 journal of the Society of English Grammar and Usage.

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