On "effect extending teiru" in conversations
-A way to connect the past event with the present-
2009 Volume 16 Issue 2 Pages 42-43
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2009 Volume 16 Issue 2 Pages 42-43
Kudo (1995) claims that the function of -teiru used for past events in novels is to shift the speaker's view point to the past, and refers this function as perfect teiru. This paper examines this function in conversations. The result of our corpus analysis shows that the use of teiru presents three functions: 1) to avoid declaration, which is conveyed by the use of -ta; 2) to connect the past event with the present; and 3) to include the listener in the event to make it a shared event, which conveys the speaker's consideration to the listener's feelings. We refers to these functions as effect extending teiru.
