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Title Transcription
エイゴ ノ メイシテキ トートロジー ニ ツイテ
Title Alternative (English)
On English Nominal Tautologies
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language
eng
Author
Hirai, Akinori
Description
People often utter a tautological statement such as A deal is a deal, Boys are boys, and Business is business. Such sentences might be presumed to be non-informative since they are necessarily true and do not appear to add new information to the knowledge of the hearer. However, such apparently non-informative expressions convey very complex import. How do they come to have their communicative significance?
The purpose of this paper is to suggest a reasonable approach to such English nominal tautologies that have the syntactic construction NP_i-be -NP_i, in which the two noun phrases are identical in sense and form. Based on this approach, I shall also analyze a variety of nominal tautologies.
I would like to start, then, with an examination of approaches in the past that consider such tautologies: Levinson (1983), Wierzbicka (1987, 1988), Fraser (1988). It is my expectation that such a procedure will lead to a valid and valuable approach.
Journal Title
Memoirs of the Faculty of Law and Literature
Volume
17
Issue
2
Start Page
11
End Page
34
ISSN
03886859
Published Date
1992-07-25
NCID
AN00108081
Publisher
島根大学法文学部
Publisher Aalternative
Shimane University, Faculty of Law and Literature
NII Type
Departmental Bulletin Paper
Format
PDF
Text Version
出版社版
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Faculty of Law and Literature
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