2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A study on utterance-initial-particles : aiming for investigation into the characteristic phenomena of spoken Japanese
| Project/Area Number |
20520365
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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 |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Osaka Shoin Women's University |
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Principal Investigator |
NAKATA Setsuko (ARITA Setsuko) 大阪樟蔭女子大学, 学芸学部, 教授 (70263994)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SHIRAI Hidetoshi 中京大学, 情報理工学部, 教授 (10134462)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2011
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| Keywords | 発話冒頭 / 話し言葉 / 提題助詞 / 談話意味論 / 会話分析 |
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| Research Abstract |
We studied the recent phenomena in Colloquial Japanese in which particles(joshi) appear without preceding phrases, from the descriptive and theoretical viewpoints. We showed that the utterance-initial-particles(UIPs) have a dual function ; UIPs in general share a common discourse function that realizes the completeness as a form of expression depending on the preceding discourse, whereas each particle plays its own syntactic and discourse functions even appearing in the utterance initial position. The utterance-initial wa, especially, acquires an interjectional function because it is inspired by a focus-presenting function indigenous in its topic marking usage.
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Research Products
(15 results)
