The role of scalarity in the meaning and function of language: a formal semantic/pragmatic approach

标量在语言意义和功能中的作用：形式语义/语用方法

• 批准号: 23720204
• 负责人: SAWADA Osamu
• 金额: $ 1.33万
• 依托单位: Mie University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2011 至 2013
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-23720204/
• 关键词: scalarity; comparison; degree; intensifer; diminutive; logic; modality; conventional implicature; discourse structure; intensifier; formal pragmatics; 意味論; 語用論; 多次元性; スケール; 程度性; 慣習的推意; 指小辞; モーダル指示詞

This project investigated the role of scalarity in natural language in terms of the semantics/pragmatics interface. Particularly, I focused on the phenomena of intensifiers, comparison, modal demonstratives, and diminutives, and considered the relationship between semantic scalar meaning and pragmatic scalar meaning. Through analyzing the meanings and use of these phenomena, I clarified that (i) scalarity not only plays an important role in the semantic dimension but also in the discourse-pragmatic dimension (e.g., politeness, modes of speaking, precedence of utterances, and expressives), and that (ii) there is a parallelism between the semantic dimension and the pragmatic dimension in terms of scalarity.

本项目从语义/语用界面的角度研究了自然语言中尺度性的作用。我特别关注了加强词、比较词、情态指示词和小词的现象，并考虑了语义标量意义和语用标量意义之间的关系。通过对这些现象的意义和用法的分析，我阐明了(1)标量性不仅在语义维度上起着重要作用，而且在语篇-语用维度（如礼貌、说话方式、话语优先级和表达方式）上也起着重要作用；(2)语义维度和语用维度在标量性方面存在平行关系。

项目成果

The meaning of diminutive shift in Japanese: its dimensionality, regularity and pragmatic effect

日语中微变的意义：维度、规律性与语用效果

• 发表时间: 2011
• 作者: Sawada;Osamu;Osamu Sawada
• 通讯作者: Osamu Sawada

Cross-linguistic variation of intensified comparison: the semantics/pragmatics interface

强化比较的跨语言变异：语义/语用界面

• 发表时间: 2013
• 作者: Sawada;Osamu
• 通讯作者: Osamu

Expressivity and measurement: the case of the Japanese degree adverb motto

表达性与测量：日语程度副词座右铭的案例

• 发表时间: 2012
• 作者: 澤田淳;澤田治;Sawada Osamu;澤田治
• 通讯作者: 澤田治

Diminutive shifts in Japanese : a phonology-pragmatics interface

日语中的微小变化：音系-语用学界面

• 发表时间: 2011
• 作者: Sawada;Osamu
• 通讯作者: Osamu

The context-dependency of Japanese diminutive shift

日语小词变化的语境依赖性

• 发表时间: 2013
• 作者: Sawada;Osamu;Sawada Osamu
• 通讯作者: Sawada Osamu