2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
An Integrated Study of Small-Corpus-Based Stylistics and the Theory of Meaning
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16520295
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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 | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
OKITA Tomoko Osaka University, Graduate Schcolof Language and Culture, Professor (50127205)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
INAKI Akiko Otemon Gakuin University, Faculty of International Literal Arts, Professor (50151577)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2007
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| Keywords | theor of meaning / corpus stylistics / small corpus / stylistics / two Alice books |
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| Research Abstract |
This study develops effectiveness and validity of the small-corpus-based approach combined with the non-corpus-based. The small-corpus-based approach mainly treats the concrete results of the author's writing, but cannot fathom causes or processes leading to the results. For example in the article, 'A Small-Corpus Based Approach to Alice's Roles' adopted in Literary and Linguistic Computing, collocation data for Alice serve well to retrieve how Alice is described in terms of modifiers and how she speaks in terms of adverbials, but regrettably what Alice is called by others. The corpus-based quantitative approach, in other words, deals with 'reference' while 'sense' should be grasped through textual interpretation or sometimes inferred processing. This qualitative approach requires comprehensive studies in stylistics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics and relevance theory, which leads to a new theory of meaning.
An integrated study of two different approaches collaborated contributes to the elucidation of the extrinsic and intrinsic value of literary works. The study exhibits one of concrete procedures for stylistic research with small corpus processing, which provides 'more systematic evidence for unavoidable subjective interpretation' as in Stubbs (2005 : 22).
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Research Products
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[Presentation] ことば学への招待2007
Author(s)
沖田知子
Organizer
日本語文・日語教育学会
Place of Presentation
台湾 銘傳大学
Year and Date
2007-12-15
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
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