2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Comparative studies of Russian and Japanese - linguistic encoding of the language-specific semantic dominants
| Project/Area Number |
23720191
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Iwate University |
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Principal Investigator |
KANEKO Yuriko 岩手大学, 人文社会科学部, 准教授 (80527135)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2012
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| Keywords | ロシア語 / 日本語 / アスペクト / テンス / 言語的世界像 / 対照言語学 |
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| Research Abstract |
This research aims to reveal how Russian and Japanese languages linguistically encode each other's language-specific semantic dominants - the idea of "limit" in Russian and of "stability" in Japanese. Analyzing the parallel texts from literature and translations, I have observed that a complex situation tends to be expressed in Russian as a dynamic sequence of the discrete events, while in Japanese as a stative description of a stable phase (state/process) with subordinating complement, and that the agent's goal-oriented action appears more frequently in Russian than in Japanese, but the latter often adds the narrator's subjective emphatic assertion to the situation described.
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Research Products
(8 results)
