2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The discourse structure and context-shifting functions of non-truth conditional scalar expressions
| Project/Area Number |
26770140
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Mie University |
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Principal Investigator |
Sawada Osamu 三重大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (40598083)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | discourse structure / conventional implicature / context shift / scalarity / comparison / intensifier / expressives / degree |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project investigated the discourse structure and context-shifting functions of non-truth conditional scalar expressions. Through a detailed analyses of both the meaning and use of various non-truth conditional scalar modifiers, such as the Japanese sore yori ‘than it’, nanni-yori ‘what-than’, and totemo ‘very’, as well as the mirative demonstrative ano and the English more than anything, more than that, this project shows that (i) there are scale structures in the discourse-pragmatic dimension (not only in the semantic dimension), and (ii) scalarity is used flexibly to signal various kinds of pragmatic meanings, such as objection, topic change, and mirativity.
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| Free Research Field |
意味論, 語用論
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