2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study of Cleft Sentences in Discourse : Relevance-theoretic, Functional and Cognitive Approach
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21520503
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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 | Joetsu University of Education |
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Principal Investigator |
KATO Masahiro 上越教育大学, 大学院・学校教育研究科, 教授 (00136623)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | 分裂文 / 擬似分裂文 / 総記的含意 / It is that節構文 / 「の(だ)」構文 / 会話の含意 / 言語規約的含意 / 関連性理論 |
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| Research Abstract |
This research has investigated discourse functions of English cleft sentences and inference processes of their interpretations in discourse. The main outcomes obtained are(i) that the exhaustiveness implicatures appears to be conversational implicatures rather than conventional ones ;(ii) that reviewing Otake(2009), and his claim that information in the speaker's store of knowledge plays a crucial role in the interpretation of the It is that-construction, and that his claim that the no da-construction and its English counterparts can be analyzed in terms of the dichotomy of perception and cognition can be tenable.
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