2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Cognitive-Pragmatic Approach to the Interpretation Process of Metaphorical Utterances
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19520424
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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 | Nara Women's University |
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Principal Investigator |
YOSHIMURA Akiko Nara Women's University, 文学部, 教授 (40252556)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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| Keywords | メタファー / アナロジー / 類似性のレベル / 関連性の原則 / 発話処理プロセス |
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| Research Abstract |
Metaphor is based on the cognition of various levels of similarity. This research revealed two points : 1) that metaphorical-utterance interpretations involve the addressee's construction, with her/his minimal efforts, of an abstracted schema which is the result of an elaboration to include its source as a prototype and its target as a (peripheral) member, and 2) that metaphorical utterances based on the story-level similarity communicate a new type of implicatures drawn by relevance-constrained inductive inference rules. These results lead to the radical modification and advancement of the most promising cognitive pragmatic theory, "Relevance Theory".
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Research Products
(19 results)
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[Presentation] On Horn's Metalinguistic Negation2009
Author(s)
吉村あき子
Organizer
The 12^<th> Annual Meeting of Pragmatic Society of Japan Workshop 2"Aspects of Negation : Neo-Gricean, Relevance-Theoretic and Cognitive Linguistic perspectives"
Place of Presentation
held at Ryukoku University Oral Presentation
Year and Date
2009-12-05
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