2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Deictics in Chinese and the surrounding languages
| Project/Area Number |
19320058
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
HAYASI Tooru The University of Tokyo, 大学院・人文社会系研究科, 教授 (20173015)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KIMURA Hideki 東京大学, 大学院・人文社会系研究科, 教授 (20153207)
NISHIMURA Yoshiki 東京大学, 大学院・人文社会系研究科, 准教授 (20218209)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2010
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| Keywords | 語用論 / ダイクシス |
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| Research Abstract |
In this project deictic elements of some Asian languages, such as Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Japanese Sign Language, Turkish, Shibe, Vietnamese, and Ramahorot (Austronesian), have been studied. The result shows that the usage of deictic elements may be related to (1) spatial and temporal proximity of referents, (2) various context features, (3) viewpoint of speakers, and (4) spatial axes delimited by topography. It also leads us to the consequence such that the basic function of deictics is to bind utterances to actual contexts.
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