Information Design: its theory and practice

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520559
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: English linguistics
• Research Institution: Otemon Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: INAKI Akiko 追手門学院大学, 国際教養学部, 名誉教授 (50151577)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): HOTTA Tomoko 龍谷大学, 社会学部, 教授 (90209255) ; OKITA Tomoko 大阪大学, 言語文化研究科, 教授 (50127205)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 情報操作のデザイン / トリックのレトリック / 新しい文体論の質的・量的研究 / 書きことば / 話しことば / メディア

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study contributes to the development of new areas in stylistics studies in discovering the design of information manipulation in English and extending its range from four points. First, we expanded the target data from written texts of fiction to spoken language, and furthermore to media reports. Second, we applied a new theory of meaning incorporated with the latest findings in fields such as pragmatics, relevance theory and cognitive theory. Thirdly, we investigated tricks in rhetoric, such as inducement, false induction, and weaving, in examples of information manipulation. Fourthly, we built corpora to deepen the language analysis furnishing quantitative support.
We published one book and nine papers in total, and gave a presentation　‘Information Design in Ackroyd’at an international conference, PALA 2014.

Free Research Field

英語学、文体論、語用論、英語コーパス研究