Contrastive study on textual functions of narration in French and Japanese: Internal monolog

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520476
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Osaka Prefecture University
• Principal Investigator: TAKAGAKI Yumi 大阪府立大学, 人間社会学部, 教授 (60253126)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 対照修辞学 / テクスト / フランス語学 / 国際研究者交流 / フランス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This contrastive study of Japanese and French focuses on narration and quotation. The main data were taken from translations of literary works in both languages. We observe the conditions of occurrences of direct speech, quoted expressions, and internal monolog at sentence and text level. In addition, we describe some differences between basic principles of French and Japanese textual organization. The observations made during the analysis have contributed to the development of French learning materials in the form of a free iPhone application.

Free Research Field

フランス語学