On the characteristics of Japanese reported discourse

Oshima, David Y.; Sano, Shin-ichiro

doi:10.1075/celcr.15.10osh

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“…AN ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATION. In this study, we link logophoricity to perspective-taking or empathy, following prior theoretical work on perspective-sensitive reflexives (e.g., Sells 1987;Cole et al 2001;Huang & Liu 2001;Oshima 2006Oshima , 2007Kim & Yoon 2009;Nishigauchi 2014;Charnavel et al 2017;Charnavel 2020Charnavel , 2021. However, the experimental results from the cur-rent study can have an alternative explanation without assuming this link.…”

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“…The pronoun ta ('he'), which is coreferential with the discourse topic Xiaoming, is the potential non-local antecedent. Thus, the Topic Empathy Hierarchy predicts that people should be more likely to empathize with the perspective center Xiaoming than Prof. Wang (also see e.g., Oshima 2006;Lyu & Kaiser 2021, 2023 on the effectiveness of discourse topicality in inducing empathy with a non-local subject).…”

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“…In this study, which builds on prior theoretical (e.g. Kuno 1987;Oshima 2006) and experimental (e.g. Lyu & Kaiser 2021, 2023 work, the non-local subject is always a discourse topic which tends to be construed as a perspective center.…”

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Chinese complex reflexive <em>ta-ziji</em> as an exempt anaphor

Lyu

Kaiser

2023

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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This study examines whether the complex reflexive ta-ziji in Mandarin Chinese can be used as an exempt anaphor. To this end, an offline antecedent choice experiment and an online self-paced reading experiment were conducted to explore whether and how discourse-level factors influence the interpretation of ta-ziji. The offline and online experiments provide converging evidence that the logophoric role (source vs. perceiver) of the non-local subject impacts the interpretation of ta-ziji. Crucially, the online experiment shows that when the non-local subject is an empathized source, non-local binding is preferred; when it is an empathized perceiver, there is no clear binding preference. The implications of these findings are discussed in relation to linguistic theories of anaphora and logophoricity.

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Chinese complex reflexive <em>ta-ziji</em> as an exempt anaphor

Lyu

Kaiser

2023

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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“…The formal features, variation and function of quotatives have been studied extensively in English and in other languages, including Dutch (Coppen and Foolen 2012), Norwegian (Hasund, Opsahl and Svennevig 2012), German (Golato 2000), Swedish (Eriksson 1995), Greek (Archakis and Papazachariou 2009), Japanese (Oshima and Sano 2012), African languages (Güldemann 2008) and Danish (Rathje 2011), to mention just a few. In most of these cases particular attention has been paid to the variety of quotatives used by adolescents and young speakers as well as to their diachronic development.…”

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The Quotative System in Spanish and English Youth Talk. A Contrastive Corpus-based Study

Martínez

2014

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The speech of teenagers is rich in narratives, with the direct reproduction of speech, thoughts, and non-lexical material often introduced through the use of quotatives. This paper aims to compare such quotative markers in English and Spanish.. Findings indicate that both Spanish and British teenagers make use of a wide range of specific quotatives in their speech. For example, in English go and (be) like prevail clearly over general reporting verbs such as say, think and ask. In Spanish, we also find a system of both general reporting verbs (decir, ‘say’, contar, ‘tell’, preguntar ‘ask’) and those more typical of teenager speech (y yo…. ‘and I ...’, en plan ‘like’, es como “it's like”, saltar , ‘come up with’, etc). However, in Spanish the latter represent only 25 percent of the total, compared to almost 50 percent in English. Linguistic factors (grammatical person, aspect, tense, content of the quote) seem to constrain differently the choice and function of the quotatives observed in the teen talk of English and Spanish.

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“… 6 Some scholars have argued more narrowly that indexicals like I and yesterday can only shift in particular contexts, such as the literary genre of Free Indirect Discourse (FID), where the thought or speech of an agent other than the actual speaker is represented (Banfield 1982, Doron 1991, Schlenker 2004, Sharvit 2008), or in embedded clauses under report verbs in languages like Amharic and Zazaki (Speas 2000, Schlenker 2003, Anand & Nevins 2004, Oshima 2006). I agree with Recanati (2004), Hunter (2010), and an anonymous JL referee that the distribution of a shifted now is not restricted to these (quasi-)report contexts, meaning it is much broader than other shifty indexicals. …”

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Discourse properties ofnow

Lee

2015

J. Ling.

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This paper proposes an updated analysis of the uses of now to modify past-tense clauses in narratives. It is by now well known that indexical expressions such as now are not as rigid as previously thought and can shift in some contexts (e.g. a literary style like Free Indirect Discourse in English or under report verbs in some languages). What is interesting about shifted now is that its distribution is much broader than these limited contexts. The conditions under which it can shift, however, are unclear and still under debate. Many recent proposals have tried to derive this property from the lexical meaning of now, thus treating it as a special case. Unlike previous analyses, I argue that the temporal perspective shift and temporal relations are functions of narrative discourse itself rather than the lexical semantics of now. The lexical meaning of now, I contend, is that it refers to a contextually salient time, regardless of whether it derives from actual speech context or discourse context. In addition, now invariably indicates a change of state, denoting the turning point dividing the past and the future seen from this contextually salient time. My claim is based on a quantitative study of naturally occurring narrative examples from the British National Corpus, and formalized in the discourse-level formal framework of Discourse Representation Theory.

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On the characteristics of Japanese reported discourse

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