石川邦芳 言語学研究室
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Speaker's Strategies of Deixis, Implicature, and Ellipsis: Subjectivity-Bases
Journal of Information & Communication Studies, Vol. 3
I argue that Japanese has abundant deictic phenomena and some of them are in fact involved in one kind of implicature in connection with shifts of speakers' viewpoints. I claim that Japanese gives priority over speakers' subjectivity in sending out propositional meanings. I start with characterization of speakers' viewpoints with unidirectional verbs 'come' and 'go.' I then analyze Verb 1-te Verb 2 (hereafter V1-te V2) constructions with unidirectional verbs in V2 positions. Given the fundamental nature of speaker's subjective involvement in the unidirectional verb constructions, V2 is claimed to convey one kind of implicature. Finally, with such an implicit meaning of implicature, I discuss certain conditions that ensure recoverability of a missing subject in a speaker's subjective description.