Cognitive exploration of pragmatics: Story, emotion, and discourse strategy

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370454
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Hokuriku Gakuin University (2016); Aichi Prefectural University (2014-2015)
• Principal Investigator: MIYAURA Kunie 北陸学院大学, 人間総合学部(幼児児童教育学科), 教授(移行) (50275111)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 認知言語学 / 語用論 / ストーリー的知識構造 / エモーション / レトリックストラテジー / 定型表現

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Proverbs do not just express the conventionalized sociocultural patterns of experiences, but also function as a constructional schema, enabling the speaker to use them flexibly. Sentence adverbs were analyzable from the viewpoint of rhetoric strategy. "N-proof" words show high productivity, and it became clear that "child-proof" could be better analyzed based on story-like knowledge than blending theoretic analysis. The expression "freedom is freedom is freedom" seems to be anomalous, especially from foreign learners of English, but actually such [X is X is X] construction instances are quite frequently used as natural expressions. Following Taylor (2002), the ecological niche of this construction was explored. The [X is X is X] construction exhibits representative iconicity in that predication is made double sure, rather than being analyzed as Langacker's serial constructions. It was also made clear that the [X is X is X] construction plays a unique role in grammar and in discourse.

Free Research Field

英語学