The performance of alternative youth speech styles in contemporary urban Japan

自 2029 财年开始，对与大学生活相关的社会群体进行了长期民族志调查，现已完成。 该民族志包括在课堂、俱乐部实践、社交活动等期间进行的实地考察。在俱乐部比赛期间收集了更多数据。音频数据是在非正式和正式场合收集的。 在俱乐部训练期间和受控实验室环境中收集了额外的视频数据。 收集到的数据使用标准话语分析标记进行转录，并编译成可搜索的文本文件。关键对话已被完全转录，对显着语言项目的分析已产生强有力的结果，特别是在与青年相关的引语、修辞疑问句以及非正式和正式动词形式变体（即 MASU/PLAIN 动词形式变体）的社会和话语功能方面。 这些结果已在国内和国际场合发表，并计划在 2018 年底和 2019 年进行几次进一步的演示。由于研究在一年后（即提前 14 个月）停止，结果尚未完全转录和分析，但这项工作仍在进行中，并将在项目完成后继续进行。

A long term ethnography of social groups relevant to university life, which began in FY29, was conducted and completed. This ethnography included fieldwork conducted during classes, club practice, social activities etc. Further data was collected during club competitions. Audio data was collected in both informal and formal settings. Additional video data was collected during club practice, and in controlled laboratory settings. Collected data was transcribed using standard discourse analysis markers and was compiled into searchable text files.Key conversations have been fully transcribed and analysis of salient linguistic items has yielded strong results especially with respect to the social and discourse functions of youth-linked quotatives, rhetorical interrogatives as well as patterns of use of informal and formal verb form variants, i.e.MASU/PLAIN verb form variation. These results have been presented in both domestic and international settings with several further presentations planned for late 2018 and 2019. Due to the research stopping after one year (i.e. 14 months early), results have not been fully transcribed and analyzed, however, this work is ongoing and will continue well past the completion of the project.