疑問文と質問に関する語用論的考察

• 小林 ミナ

  名古屋大学

書誌事項

タイトル別名

• On the Scope and Focus of Questions in Japanese A Radical Pragmatic View

抄録

The aim of this paper is to reexamine, from the radical pragmatic point of view, the theoretical domains in which the phenomena of the scope, focus and presupposition of questions in Japanese should be described. Although a large number of studies have been conducted on these phenomena, most of them characterize them in syntactic terms.<br>I define the term “interrogative sentence” to refer to a type of sentence, and “question” to refer to a kind of (verbal or non-verbal) action. Given these definitions, my claim is as follows: Interrogative sentences should be described in syntax, and questions in pragmatics.<br>Through examining what this claim entails, we find that, contrary to some prior studies (e.g. Kuno 1983; Takubo 1985), there is no direct evidence to support that the syntactic scope of questions exists, and furthermore, that the facts which these researchers used as evidence for the existence of the syntactic scope can be accounted for by making a clear distinction between “grammaticality” and “acceptability”. It is, therefore, concluded that the syntactic scope of questions does not exist.<br>This approach is superior to the prior approach in the following two respects: First, by not accepting the existence of the scope with respect to questions, two exceptions to the scope restriction, WH-words and MC focus, cease to be exceptions. Secondly, the approach taken here suggests a possibility of describing such pragmatic phenomena as the focus and the presupposition of questions in purely pragmatic terms.

収録刊行物

• 言語研究

  言語研究 1993 (104), 128-156, 1993

  日本言語学会

キーワード

• 疑問文
• 質問
• 語用論
• スコープ
• 焦点

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390282680098813312
• NII論文ID: 130003424772
• DOI: 10.11435/gengo1939.1993.104_128
• ISSN: 21856710
• ISSN: 00243914
• 本文言語コード: en
• データソース種別:
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  • CiNii Articles
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