Descriptive Studies of Functional Words with 'mono' as a Component

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K13094
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 02090:Japanese language education-related
• Research Institution: Kobe University of Future Health Sciences
• Principal Investigator: MATSUSHITA Mitsuhiro 神戸医療未来大学, 人間社会学部, 教授 (50846037)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: もの / 機能語 / 使用文脈 / 用法 / 表現意図 / 異質・例外 / 本来・通常

Outline of Final Research Achievements

There are two patterns of contextual development in which functional words with 'mono' as a component are used. One is in a context in which the speaker is describing a target event that he or she perceives as unusual, and which annotatively indicates an ordinary event. The other is in a context where the speaker describes a target event that he or she perceives as unusual, and then expresses the speaker's evaluation and judgement, such as awareness, impression, explanation of background circumstances, denial, etc. The expressive intent common to all these function words is to express the speaker's evaluation or judgement that the target event is unusual, such as not as it should be,
different from the usual, different from most, or difficult to understand or accept.

Free Research Field

日本語教育

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究では、従来1文のみを分析対象として行われていた記述に対し、前後の文脈も分析対象とするという手法で「いつ、どのような文脈で、何のために用いるか」という点を明らかにする記述を行った。今後もこのような手法を用いて従来の記述よりも精緻な記述を目指す研究が拡がっていくことが期待できる。また、本研究の成果は日本語教育の現場に直接還元できるものであり、その社会的意義は大きいと考える。