A Corpus-Based Study of Rhetoric in English and Japanese

本课题旨在从认知语言学的角度探讨英语和日语修辞表达的意义。研究者考虑诗歌表达与人类对外部世界的认知或概念化之间的关系。她的材料涉及面很广，包括机器可读的英语和日语诗歌、莎士比亚的作品、《圣经》和词典。在这个项目中，她提供了广泛的视角，涵盖了理论和应用研究。作为一项理论研究，她基于“四元素”的概念，即人们过去认为所有物质体都是由四种物质组成的概念，研究了人类理解心灵的认知机制。在她的研究过程中，她提出了几个概念隐喻，这些隐喻在以前的认知语言学研究中尚未被提出。她还研究了各种修辞模式的认知过程，如转喻、提喻、矛盾修饰和转移修饰，特别关注修辞表达的情感方面。她的应用研究主要集中在话语和教育方面。首先，她注意到了日本传统诗歌的形式，比如和歌、俳句和连诗。在日本，诗歌作品通常是由一群诗人组成的，他们轮流吟诗，交换修辞，进行诗歌演讲。她研究了作者的认知过程，包括隐喻和转喻，这在合作创作诗歌中起着重要作用。其次，她探索了一种有效的英语沟通技巧教育方法。基于对本科生英语课堂的个案研究结果，她提出利用麦克米伦英语词典（2002）向学生提供概念隐喻的信息，为英语自由写作提供有用的提示。她四年的研究成果集中在十三篇论文和一本书中。由研究者（与Toshio Ohori等人）共同撰写的《认知的交际理论》一书（2004年2月）刚刚由taiishkan Shoten出版。少

The purpose of this project is to explore the meaning of rhetorical expressions in English and Japanese from the cognitive-linguistic point of view. The investigator considers the relationships between poetical expressions and human cognition or conceptualization of the external world. Her material is far-ranging, including machine-readable texts of English and Japanese poems, the works of Shakespeare, the Bible, and dictionaries.In this project she provides a wide perspective, covering theoretical, and applied researches. As a theoretical research, she investigated the cognitive mechanism for comprehension of human mind based on the concepts of "the four elements," i.e. the four substances from which people used to believe that all material bodies are compounded. In the course of her study she advocated several conceptual metaphors hitherto unpropsed in previous researches in cognitive linguistics. She also examined the cognitive processes concerning various patterns of rhetoric like … More metonymy, synecdoche oxymoron, and transferred epithet, devoting special attention to emotive aspects of the rhetorical expressions.Her applied researches were mainly on discourse and education. First, she took note on the forms of traditional Japanese poetry, such as waka, haiku, and renku (linked verse). In Japan, poetic works were often composed by a group of poets, who alternate in making stanzas, exchanging rhetoric and holding poetic discourse with each other. She investigated the authors' cognitive processes involving metaphor and metonymy that play important roles in composing poems in collaboration. Second, she explored an efficient method of education for communication skills in English. Based on the result of a case study of an English class aimed at undergraduate students, she proposed to utilize Macmillan English Dictionary (2002) in order to present information to students on conceptual metaphors which furnish useful hints for free English composition.The results of her study in the term of four years are embodied in thirteen papers and one book. The book titled Communicative Theory of Cognition-(Ninchi Komyunikeishon Ron) whereof the investigator is a coauthor (with Toshio Ohori et al.) has just been published (February 2004) by Taishukan Shoten. Less