2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A study on social and geographic variations of the use of Japanese demonstratives
| Project/Area Number |
25370519
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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 |
Japanese linguistics
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| Research Institution | Okayama 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 | 指示詞 / 現場指示 / 直示用法 / 記憶指示 / 方言 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research investigated how the use of Japanese demonstratives varies, depending on the social and the geographic factors. According to the experiments we had in Nagasaki university and Okayama university in 2014 and 2015, we discovered that their dialects affect to some extent the use of "So"-series demonstratives especially. We also studied the use of "a"-series demonstratives used in memory use. Our investigations strongly suggest that the "direct experience" is not needed as strongly as the previous studies have claimed. Instead, some kind of emotional factors of a speaker affect the selection of demonstratives in such dialects mentioned above.
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| Free Research Field |
日本語学
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