Empirical contrastive study of German modal particles and Japanese sentence-final particles: Examining utterance experiments aiming to develop an linguistic performance model

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370502
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Gakushuin University
• Principal Investigator: Okamoto Junji 学習院大学, 文学部, 教授 (80169151)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 大薗 正彦 静岡大学, 人文社会科学部, 教授 (10294357) ; 宮下 博幸 関西学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (20345648)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): USHIYAMA Saori 学習院大学, 外国語教育研究センター (40649589)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ドイツ語の心態詞 / 日本語の終助詞 / 共有知識 / 聞き手への訴えかけ / 発話状況 / 事態把握 / 間主観性 / 言語運用モデル

Outline of Final Research Achievements

It is said that modal particles in German (such as doch, halt, ja, mal, schon, wohl) represent epistemic attitudes of a speaker in a certain way and have been getting attention in modern linguistics since the latter half of the 1960, yet the core properties have not be pinned down. This project has compared empirical data of German modal particles with those of Japanese sentence-final particles (such as "yo, ne, na, ka") in a systematic way. As a result, three basic categories for the comparison are set up: (1) adjusting common knowledge between the speaker and the hearer, (2) speaker's appeal to the hearer and (3) the utterance-situation and its recognition by the speaker. We have developed the basic framework of a linguistic performance model, in which we can systematically pick up common features and different factors.

Free Research Field

認知言語学