The performance of alternative youth speech styles in contemporary urban Japan

从29财年开始，对与大学生活有关的社会群体进行并完成了长期的民族志研究。这个民族志包括在课堂上进行的田野调查、社团实践、社会活动等。在俱乐部比赛期间收集了进一步的数据。在非正式和正式环境中收集音频数据。在俱乐部练习期间和受控的实验室环境中收集了额外的视频数据。使用标准语篇分析标记对收集到的数据进行转录，并编译成可搜索的文本文件。关键的对话已经被完整地记录下来，对突出的语言项目的分析产生了强有力的结果，特别是在与青年有关的引语、修辞疑问句以及非正式和正式动词形式变体的使用模式方面，即masu /PLAIN动词形式变体。这些结果已经在国内和国际环境中进行了介绍，并计划在2018年底和2019年进行进一步的介绍。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，但是，这项工作正在进行中，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.