An Innovative Approach to Comparative Studies of Japanese and English: From the Perspective of Cognitive Pragmatics

本研究的主要目的是从元表征的角度探讨日英语言的差异。这一基本机制可以用关联理论中与元表征密切相关的基本理论概念--“显化”来解释。为了证实上述结论，我与韩国仁荷大学的Noh教授提议进行一项联合研究，将日语与具有相同语序的韩语进行比较。我们在一个研讨会上阅读了一篇论文，我们讨论了韩语和日语具有相同的语言现象。研究结果可以在下面列出的两篇论文，五个演示文稿和三本书中找到。

The main objective of this research is to look at some kinds of linguistic differences of Japanese and English from an innovative perspective of metarepresentation. It has turned out that the basic mechanism can be explained in terms of 'explicature,' a fundamental theoretical notion of the theory of relevance, which is closedly related to metarepresentation.In order to confirm the conclusion above I proposed to Professor Noh, Inha University, Korea, a joint research to compare Japanese with Korean which has the same word order as Japanese. We read a paper at a workshop and we discussed that Korean has the same kind of linguistic phenemena as that of Japanese.The results of the research can be found in two papers, five presentations, and three books listed below.