A Study on Regional Differences of Discourse Development in Japanese Dialect Role-Play Conversations

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370539
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese linguistics
• Research Institution: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
• Principal Investigator: INOUE Fumiko 大学共同利用機関法人人間文化研究機構国立国語研究所, 時空間変異研究系, 准教授 (90263186)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MATSUDA Mika 別府大学, 文学部, 教授 (00300492) ; KUMAGAI Tomoko 東京女子大学, 現代教養学部, 教授 (40207816) ; MITSUI Harumi 大学共同利用機関法人人間文化研究機構国立国語研究所, 理論・構造研究系, 助教 (50219672) ; KONISHI Izumi 広島大学, 教育学研究科, 准教授 (60315736) ; HIDAKA Mizuho 関西大学, 文学部, 教授 (80292358)
• Research Collaborator: SAKAI Masashi ; SHIRASAKA Chisato ; TANAKA Wataru ; TOSHIOKA Maho ; NOMA Junpei ; MORI Yuta ; YAMAMOTO Sora
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 方言談話 / 会話分析 / 発話機能 / 言語行動 / データベース

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We have collected data on role-play conversations in various Japanese dialects. The speaker groups were diversely composed in terms of generation (older/younger), gender (men/women), and hierarchical relationships (senior/peer/junior), and were recorded as they enacted different situations (complaint/request/consolation/persuasion/taking attendance/proposition). By focusing on the contents of speech, approaches to appealing to the other party, and communication strategies, the study analyzes the discourse structure and development of dialectal conversations from the standpoints of regional, generational, gender, situational, and media differences. These data have been made available in the “Japanese Dialect Role-Play Conversation Database.”

Free Research Field

方言学