2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Cognitive-Pragmatic Approach to Taxonomy of Negation: Revisit to Descriptive/Metalinguistic Negation
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23520586
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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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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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 日本語の否定 / メタ言語否定 / メタ表示 / 帰属性(attribution) / 異議(objection) / 概念性(conceptuality) / 関連性理論(relevance thoery) |
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| Research Abstract |
This research proposes that Horn's (1985) descriptive/metalinguistic dichotomy of negation should be replaced with a distinction between OBJECTION and DESCRIPTION, and that the taxonomy with an abstract, logical view of negation should be replaced by a functional, cognitive-pragmatic (relevance-theoretic) view. Horn's descriptive negation (DN) represents a truth-functional operator, taking a proposition p into a proposition not-p, and "metalinguistic" negation (MN) represents a non-truth-functional operator, objecting to a previous utterance. This research extracts three properties that contribute to the taxonomy of negation (i.e. objection as a function, attribution in Wilson's(2000) sense, and the conceptuality of the negation target), and concludes that the 'attribution' of the lower representation (and its resulting function 'objection'), but not truth-functionality, is a crucial property for the dichotomy of sentence negation.
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[Presentation] On Attribution2013
Author(s)
Yoshimura, Akiko
Organizer
The 3^<rd> Nara Women's University Linguistics Seminar, Oral Presentation
Place of Presentation
Nara Women's University, JAPAN
Year and Date
2013-08-07
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