GENGO KENKYU (Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan)

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1995 Volume 1995 Issue 108 Pages 1-3
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11435/gengo1939.1995.108_1

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1995 Volume 1995 Issue 108 Pages 4-6
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1995 Volume 1995 Issue 108 Pages 7-9
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11435/gengo1939.1995.108_7

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1995 Volume 1995 Issue 108 Pages 10-12
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The Polite Expressions and the Speech Act of Asking About Age in"Golden Lotus"

From the Approach of Sociolinguistics

PENG Guoyue

1995 Volume 1995 Issue 108 Pages 24-45
Published: November 30, 1995
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11435/gengo1939.1995.108_24

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"Golden Lotus" is one of the most remarkable Chinese novels that depicts the daily life of common Chinese citizens in the seventeenth century. This paper intends to demonstrate the relationship between theapplication of polite expressions in modern Chinese and other social factors such as social status, sex and age through the analysis of various different expressions of asking about the age in the novel.
First, all the thirty two cases of the speech act of asking about the age in the novel are enumerated and are categorized into eight types: 1.propositional content (ji sui). 2. propsitional content+fuzziness (duo da nian ji). 3. propositional content+fuzziness+metaphor (dou shao qing chun). 4. propositional content+elderliness(duo da nian ji). 5. propositional content+polite word(gui geng). 6. propositional content+polite word+senility (gao shou). 7. propositional content+metaphor+indirect speech act (qing wen•••duo da nian ji). 8. propositional content+metaphor+indirect speech act+negation(bu gan qing en•••qing chun duo shao).
Then, every speech act is analysed with regard to the social context, i.e. the social relationship between the speakers and hearers, and the people mentioned in the conversation in terms of their social status, sex and age. The result of this analysis indicates that eight types of expressions evidently correlate with some of these social factors. Types5-8 which imply a high degree of respect possess these notable features as follows:
1. Type 5 which contains "gui-" is mainly used to inquire about the age of those whose social status are higher than speaker's.
2. Type6which contains "gui-" used to inquire about the age of old people.
3.Type7and8which employ the indirect speech act are used to inquire about the age of women.

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Consonant Gemination in Loanword Phonology and Rhythm Clash

Itsue KAWAGOE

1995 Volume 1995 Issue 108 Pages 46-73
Published: November 30, 1995
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When English words are borrowed into Japanese, several phonological processes apply to nativize foreign sound strings, one of which is consonant gemination. It is generally observed that consonant gemination applies to strings of short vowels followed either by a plosive, an affricate or a fricative. Thus, words like cap are borrowed as [kjappu] with geminated /p/. Words like caption, capital, however, are borrowed as [kjapu∫ON] and [kjapitaru] without the expected gemination of /p/in both cases and of /t/ in the latter. The applicability of the gemination process inside a word seems to be more restricted than that found at word-final position.
Distribution of geminates shows three environments where consonant gemination is blocked word-internally:(i) where vowels are underlyingly followed by a consonant in a coda position. Compare caption/kjap. ∫ON/ ( . indicates a syllable boundary) with fashion/fa.∫ON/which surfaces as [fa∫∫0N]. (iii) where the vowels are not stressed as in the second syllable of capital.
Assuming that consonant gemination is a process that is triggered by a mora insertion in the prosodic structure which is further triggered by the rhythmic clash between two prominent units, we can find a reasonable explanation to the above restriction on word-internal gemination.

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The monitoring devices of mental operations in discourse

-a case of "eeto" and "ano(o)"-

Toshiyuki SADANOBU, Yukinori TAKUBO

1995 Volume 1995 Issue 108 Pages 74-93
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This paper attempts to construct a dynamic model of dialogic discourse. We posit a cognitive interface between language and knowledge-base. This interface contains pointers or indices which control the access path to the knowledge-base and the temporary memorybase set up for each dialogue session. Utterances in a dialogue can be seen as instructions for operations on this interface:registering, searching, copying, and inferring, etc. We examine the nature of these operations by analyzing Japanese interjections such as "eeto" and "ano(o)". The mental processes which those interjections reflect can be well described using the data-base and the working buffer. "Eeto" reflects that the speaker is securing the working space in the buffer, whereas "ano(o)" reflects that the speaker is extracting linguistic information from the data-base.

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H. Craig Melchert Anatolian Historical Phonology (Leiden Studies in Indo-European 3) Amsterdam/Atlanta: Editions Rodopi B. V. 1994. 457pp. Bound Hfl. 160.00/US$ 94.00

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1995 Volume 1995 Issue 108 Pages 94-107
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1995 Volume 1995 Issue 108 Pages 108-114
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1995 Volume 1995 Issue 108 Pages 115-135
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1995 Volume 1995 Issue 108 Pages 174
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1995 Volume 1995 Issue 108 Pages 177
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