2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Corpus-based Research on Discourse-Organizing Function of Japanese Basic Loanwords
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23720241
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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 |
Japanese linguistics
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| Research Institution | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2013)
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (2011-2012) |
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Principal Investigator |
KIM Eran 東京外国語大学, 留学生日本語教育センター, 講師 (90466227)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 談話構成機能 / 通時コーパス / 外来語 / 基本語 / 基本語彙 / 基本語化 / 文章 / 新聞 |
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| Research Abstract |
The aim of this research is to clarify the factors on "inclusion of abstract loanwords into the basic words" through historical and quantitative investigations from the viewpoint of text linguistics. First of all, a diachronic corpus of the Japanese newspaper texts in the second half of the 20th century have been constructed. Secondly, by using the corpus, a database of abstract loanwords and those synonyms have been created. Thirdly, several investigations by means of the database have been carried out. Finally, it was clarified that acquisition and expansion of discourse-organizing function of loanwords have caused "inclusion of abstract loanwords into the basic words.
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