2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
English, Japanese, and the typology of motion event descriptions: A crosslinguistic experimental study with a special attention to deixis
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22520498
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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 | Kobe University |
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Principal Investigator |
MATSUMOTO Yo 神戸大学, 人文学研究科, 教授 (40245303)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 日英語 / 移動表現 / 類型論 / 認知意味論 / ダイクシス |
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| Research Abstract |
It has been known that English and Japanese exhibit different linguistic patterns in describing motion events. In previous works, however, the expressions of deixis have not been fully considered. In this work I compared linguistic expressions of the two languages used in describing motion events that include deictic contrasts, by examining data obtained through video experiments. Results show that the conditions for including deictic information differ between the two languages. Speakers of Japanese almost obligatorily describe deixis in representing motion events that develop before their eyes. English speakers, on the other hand, tend to limit deixis to the descriptions of motion to the speaker's domain that is typically accompanied by social interactions between the moving person and the speaker.
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Research Products
(11 results)
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[Presentation] Crosslinguistic tendencies in the intralinguistic variations of motion descriptions : An experimental study of manner, path, & deixis2013
Author(s)
Matsumoto, Yo, K. Akita, F. Andreani, K. Eguchi, N. Imazato, K. Kawachi, I. Matsuse, T. Morita, N. Nagaya, K. Takahashi, R. Takahashi, & Y Yoshinari
Organizer
the 12th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference
Place of Presentation
アルバータ大学(エドモントン、カナダ)
Year and Date
2013-06-27
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