The performance of alternative youth speech styles in contemporary urban Japan

从2029财政年度开始，对与大学生活有关的社会群体进行了长期人种志研究，并已完成。 这个民族志包括在课堂上进行的实地考察，俱乐部的做法，社会活动等进一步的数据收集在俱乐部的比赛。音频数据是在正式和非正式场合收集的。 在俱乐部练习期间和受控实验室环境中收集了额外的视频数据。 收集到的数据被转录使用标准的话语分析标记，并被编译成可搜索的文本文件。关键的对话已经完全转录和分析的显着的语言项目已经产生了强大的结果，特别是在社会和话语功能的青年联系quoetry，修辞疑问句以及使用模式的非正式和正式的动词形式变体，即MASU/PLAIN动词形式的变化。 这些结果已在国内和国际环境中展示，并计划在2018年底和2019年进一步展示。由于研究在一年后停止（即提前14个月），结果尚未完全转录和分析，然而，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.