2015 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Computational semantics and pragmatics of politeness phenomena
| Project/Area Number |
25370441
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| Research Institution | Aoyama Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
E・S McCready 青山学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (30433692)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
戸次 大介 お茶の水女子大学, 大学院人間文化創成科学研究科, 准教授 (90431783)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 形式意味論 / 形式語用論 / 敬語 |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Politeness is universal. We find it in every language and culture; understanding how it works, and
why, is crucial for a clear picture of human language and linguistic behavior. In our research, we have
addressed these questions, focusing on Japanese, which is a language with a highly articulated and complex system of politeness, both at the level of language itself, and at the level of how that language is used. In broad outline, we have provided the first full formal theory of politeness in language, by utilizing techniques (some developed by the project participants, some new) in formal semantics and pragmatics to analyze politeness phenomena.
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