A Comparative Study of Syntactic, Informational and Prosodic Structures in Japanese and English Discourses
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21520511
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
English linguistics
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| Research Institution | Aichi Prefectural University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2012
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2012)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥260,000 (Direct Cost: ¥200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥60,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
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| Keywords | 文体 / 談話分析 / ナラティブ分析 / 語用論 / 情報構造 / 日英語比較 / 関係詞節 / 音調単位 / Preferred Argument Structure / 能格性 / 動詞意味論 |
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| Research Abstract |
The aims of this research project are to clarify some similarities and differences in Japanese and English narrative discourses, in terms of the manner of new referent introduction and on the relation or discrepancy between the grammatical structure and the intonation structure of spoken clauses. The analyses are based on the narrative data collected through the same task. It has been made clear that both languages exhibit similar tendencies in terms of the preferred grammatical categories of new referents, but there are some differences in the manner in which new information is introduced. As for the relationship between grammatical and intonation structure, acoustic analyses are in progress with special attention to word order differences in both languages.
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