ID | 2323 |
Title Transcription | エイゴ ノ メイシテキ トートロジー ニ ツイテ
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Title Alternative (English) | On English Nominal Tautologies
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language |
eng
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Author |
Hirai, Akinori
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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
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Volume | 17
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Issue | 2
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Start Page | 11
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End Page | 34
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ISSN | 03886859
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Published Date | 1992-07-25
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NCID | AN00108081
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Publisher | 島根大学法文学部
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Publisher Aalternative | Shimane University, Faculty of Law and Literature
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NII Type |
Departmental Bulletin Paper
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Format |
PDF
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Text Version |
出版社版
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OAI-PMH Set |
Faculty of Law and Literature
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