Contrastive study between Japanese, French and English on the deixis in past narrative

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370435
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Tohoku University
• Principal Investigator: ABE Hiroshi 東北大学, 文学研究科, 教授 (10212549)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: ダイクシス / 自由間接話法 / 主観性 / 発話行為

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We have analyzed the phenomena of Japanese, French, English concerning time deixis, space deixix, dictic verb, modality adverb, free (direct and indirect) speech, and constructed the hypothesis that it is a pseudo-subject's pseudo utterance act. In addition, with regard to this phenomena which seemingly are quite homogeneous in three languages, we have extracted the differences of pseudo-subject's status in Japanese, French and English, and the cognitive base of each language which creates the difference . For each results, we have made presentations at academic meetings and research societies and have published articles on scholarly books etc. We prepare for the publication of special research books and overviews for research results as a whole.

Free Research Field

言語学