ID | 2323 |
タイトルヨミ | エイゴ ノ メイシテキ トートロジー ニ ツイテ
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日本語以外のタイトル | On English Nominal Tautologies
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言語 |
英語
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著者 |
平井 昭徳
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内容記述(抄録等) | 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. |
掲載誌名 |
島根大学法文学部紀要文学科編
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巻 | 17
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号 | 2
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開始ページ | 11
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終了ページ | 34
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ISSN | 03886859
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発行日 | 1992-07-25
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NCID | AN00108081
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出版者 | 島根大学法文学部
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出版者別表記 | Shimane University, Faculty of Law and Literature
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資料タイプ |
紀要論文
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ファイル形式 |
PDF
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著者版/出版社版 |
出版社版
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部局 |
法文学部
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