Identifying discourse-pragmatic characteristics of "Japanese English" as an international language.

本研究旨在发现日本专业英语“使用者”所写的英语中是否有明显的语篇语用特征。主要的研究问题是：“如果有的话，日本专业人士和以英语为母语的人在使用英语方面有什么不同？”为了实现这一目标，作者编制了日本用户英语语料库(JUCE)，目前该语料库包含了日本记者撰写的各种新闻文章(藤原，2014)，并将其与语料库和词表等类似的《内圈》语言数据进行了比较。通过一系列的分析发现：1)“日式英语”潜在地具有如下特点：(1)与定冠词连用更多的内容名词，较少使用人称代词；(2)更多地使用强制性情态动词、“应该”和“必须”。这两个特征可以被认为是语用特征，因为它们更直接地受到信息接收者的影响。

This research aims to detect, if any, distinctive discourse-pragmatic features in the English written by Japanese professional "users" of English. The main research question is, "What, if any, are differences in the use of English between Japanese professionals and native speakers of English?" To attain this objective, this author compiled a Japanese User Corpus of English (JUCE), currently a one-million-word corpus of various news articles written by Japanese journalists (Fujiwara, 2014) and compared it with a similar set of Inner Circle linguistic data such as corpora and a wordlist. In a series of analyses, it was found that 1) "Japanese English" potentially has some characteristics such as (1) more repeated use of content nouns with the definite articles and less use of personal pronouns, and (2) more use of obligatory modals, "should" and "must." These two features can be regarded as "pragmatic" ones in the sense that they are more directly influenced by recipients of the message.