| 研究実績の概要 |
The first paper we published was a study of Buddhist and Christian texts. We focused on the use of modals, such as "will" and "should", and how they were used in the two corpora. Our results suggested that the Christian texts contained more examples of positive compulsion and used language that was more emphatic. In contrast, the Buddhist texts used language that used hedging and was more suspicious of black and white statements of absolute truth. The second published paper was a study of a debate between an atheist and a Christian. We looked at the use of metaphor, metonymy, and force and concluded that the discourse could be described as a tug of war between competing conceptualizations. The function of figurative language in this debate was the building of images of competing ways of looking at reality.
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