Exploring limits for presupposition manipulation

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23520475
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: SHUDO Sachiko 早稲田大学, 法学学術院, 教授 (90409574)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): HARADA Yasunari 早稲田大学, 法学学術院, 教授 (80189711) ; TAKEKURO Makiko 早稲田大学, 法学学術院, 准教授 (80434223)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 語用論 / 前提 / 操作 / ポライトネス / フェイス威嚇 / 前提操作 / 客観化 / 制約

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Linguistic expressions whose usages are pragmatically constrained may be used even though their pragmatic constraints are not satisfied. Those usages are often regarded as prescriptively “wrong.” This project investigated such linguistic phenomena with respect to how the usages are received in practice. I have observed, when such usages with pragmatic manipulation are intended for politeness effects, the meaning of the linguistic expressions becomes objectivized. This means that there is paradox such that usages with manipulation of pragmatic constraints for politeness will result in the nullification of politeness effects. This analysis will appear in the first issue of Nihongo Goyoron [pragmatics] Forum (Kato, Shigehiro (ed.), in press).

Free Research Field

言語学、語用論