Functional-typological studies on the text construction principles based on the concept of dexis and anaphor

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370463
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Chiba University
• Principal Investigator: Tanaka Shin 千葉大学, 普遍教育センター, 教授 (50236593)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 言語学 / ドイツ語学 / テクスト言語学 / ダイクシス / 機能類型論

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research project, we were engaged in analyzing the concept of "deixis" and "anaphor", which could be understood as an encoding strategy from the discourse situation (deixis) and as a process dealing with conceptualized knowledge (anaphor) respectively. On the hypothesis that the grammar and the text organization are based on these two strategies, we tried to describe Japanese and German grammar and text organization with these concepts. Besides, we collaborated with Thai and English researchers at LMU Munich and tried to examine the validity of our hypothesis.

Free Research Field

ドイツ語言語学