2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Cognitive-Pragmatic Approach to Implicatures and Inference Rules: The Mechanism of Drawing Implicatures
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26370566
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
English linguistics
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Research Institution | Nara Women's University |
Principal Investigator |
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Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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Keywords | アブダクション / 抽象化と帰納 / 拡張的推意と分析的推意 / コミュニケーション / 関連性誘導による発見的解釈過程 / オンライン発話処理 / 推意導出の推論規則 / 演繹と削除規則 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research aimed at finding out what inference rules actually contribute to the online processes of drawing implicatures in our communication and stipulating a general constraint on the process. Based on the analyses of various cases of implicatures in Japanese and English contexts, this research revealed that, contra Sperber and Wilson's (1995) claims, two types of inference other than deduction, i.e. induction (e.g. abstraction) and abduction, actually contribute to drawing implicatures, and claimed that "Relevance-Guided Comprehensio Heuristic" plays a crucial role as a constraint on this online implicature-drawing process, i.e. to stop the process at a proper point. As for the classification of implicatures, based on the characteristics of the inference rules (whether the hearer's knowledge is expanded or not), this research proposed the dichotomy of implicatures: analytic implicatures and ampliative implicatures.
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Free Research Field |
人文科学、言語学・英語学、認知語用論、関連性理論、意味論、推論、否定関連表現、レトリック
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