2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Contrastive and descriptive studies of Japanese and German sentences centering on the notion perspective
| Project/Area Number |
20520375
|
|---|
| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
|
| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
|---|
| Section | 一般 |
|---|
| Research Field |
Linguistics
|
|---|
| Research Institution | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies |
|---|
Principal Investigator |
NARITA Takashi Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 大学院・総合国際学研究院, 教授 (50180542)
|
|---|
| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
|
| Keywords | 視点 / 話者・語り手 / 人称代名詞 / 受動態 |
|---|
| Research Abstract |
The concept of the perspective was defined more exactly and Japanese and German sentences were contrasted in context of this concept. This study could show that the point of view is placed in German outside the event and this event is rather neutrally described, whereas the point of view is placed in Japanese within the event and this event is rather subjectively described. Above all the tense of the verbs, personal pronouns, passive sentences, benefactive expressions were compared in German and Japanese novels and their translations and the above-mentioned differences in the mode of expression were demonstrated.
|
