2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Analysis of ironical utterances from the point of view of the Argumentative Polyphony Theory
| Project/Area Number |
25370449
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Kansai University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | アイロニー / 論証的ポリフォニー理論 / 意味ブロック理論 / 緩叙法 / 婉曲語法 / からかい / 規範的偏向 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this research project, we have elucidated the semantic mechanism underlying a certain number of rhetorical utterances around irony, from the point of view of the "Argumentative Polyphony Theory", a French linguistic theory. In our research subject are included not only such rhetorical figures as irony, litotes and euphemism, but also "banter" consisting in seemingly disparaging close friends, or "home-gorosi", a kind of irony that can be translated as“praising for killing”: by planting sarcastic content in apparently praiseful words. Throughout this project, we have also introduced successfully the above-mentioned theory in Japan where it is not well-known, which was also an important outcome.
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| Free Research Field |
言語学
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