CiNii 図書 - Animacy and reference : a cognitive approach to corpus linguistics

The concept of 'animacy' concerns the fundamental and cognitive question of the extent to which we recognize and express living things as saliently human-like or animal-like. In Animacy and Reference Mutsumi Yamamoto pursues two main objectives: First, to establish a conceptual framework of animacy, and secondly, to explain how the concept of animacy can be reflected in the use of referential expressions. Unlike previous studies on the subject focussing on grammatical manifestations, Animacy and Reference sheds light upon the conceptual properties of animacy itself and its reflection in referential processes. For the research of this study the author focussed on languages that show completely different tendencies. As a result, English and Japanese 'parallel corpora' are analysed yielding salient observations and opening intriguing discussions.

1. Acknowledgments
2. List of Abbreviations
3. List of Tables
4. List of Figures
5. Introduction
6. A. The General Animacy Scale
7. B. The Hierarchy of Persons
8. C. The Individuation Scale
9. D. Semantic Roles
10. E. Politeness
11. Chapter 1: What is 'Animacy'?
12. 1.1 General Animacy Scale: Humanness, Animacy and Inanimacy
13. 1.2 Models of the 'Animacy Hierarchy' and Degree of Animacy within Human Category: with Reference to the Hierarchy of Persons and the Individuation Scale
14. 1.3 Concluding Remarks
15. Chapter 2: What Does Animacy Do to Human Language?
16. 2.1 Overview: With Reference to Number Distinction
17. 2.2 Case Marking
18. 2.3 Word Order
19. 2.4 Subject Selection
20. 2.5 Topicality
21. 2.6 Towards a Generalisation: 'Mind-style' and Structural Salience of Animacy
22. 2.7 Concluding Remarks
23. Chapter 3: Hierarchy of Persons and Animacy in English and Japanese
24. 3.1 Overview
25. 3.2 Some Remarks on the Pragmatic Characteristics of the Hierarchy of Persons
26. 3.3 The Japanese Person System
27. 3.4 Corpus Analysis and Treatment of Noun Phrases in Texts
28. 3.5 First Person
29. 3.6 Second Person
30. 3.7 Third Person
31. 3.8 Concluding Remarks
32. Chapter 4: Degree of Individuation and Encoding of Animacy
33. 4.1 Overview
34. 4.2 Persons as Individuals vs. Persons as Roles
35. 4.3 Organisations: Borderline Cases between Animate and Inanimate Beings
36. 4.4 Concluding Remarks
37. Chapter 5: Agency and Animacy
38. 5.1 Overview
39. 5.2 Agency
40. 5.3 Expression and Suppression of Agency and Animacy
41. 5.4 Concluding Remarks
42. Chapter 6: A Neverending Story of Animacy
43. 6.1 A Neverending Story of Animacy
44. 6.2 Concluding Summary - Contribution to Linguistics
45. References
46. Appendix: Lists of Human/Animate Noun Phrases in Corpus
47. Case Study 1: Yukio Mishima, Hyaku-man Yen Senbei ('One Million Yen Rice Cracker' or 'Three Million Yen')
48. Case Study 2: Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express
49. Case Study 3: Asahi Shinbun and Asahi Evening News
50. Case Study 4: Newsweek
51. Case Study 5: The Transactions of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers and Systems and Computers in Japan
52. Case Study 6: Scientific American
53. Case Study 7: 'Tetsuko no Heya'
54. Case Study 8: Viewpoints
55. Index

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