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Indirectness of Expressions for Reported Speech the Effects of Interpersonal Relational Utterances in Japanese

  • Journal of Japanese Culture
  • 2017, (75), pp.103-135
  • DOI : 10.21481/jbunka..75.201711.103
  • Publisher : The Japanese Culture Association Of Korea (Jcak)
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Received : October 6, 2017
  • Accepted : October 27, 2017
  • Published : November 30, 2017

Oh, Tae-Kyoon 1

1北海学園大学人文学部日本文化学科

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ABSTRACT

This paper is intended to analyze “expressions for reported speech” from a pragmatic point of view with information under different contexts and to explore into social deixis where a speaker becomes aware of his or her interlocutor in producing specific-bound utterances and the effects of interpersonal relational utterances in light of indirectness of expressions for reported speech. When using reported speech, in concrete settings, adjustment of the degree of indirectness of the information contents may be necessary each time, via the involvement of elements such as “who is the utterance related to” and “what are the contents of the utterance” pertaining to the information obtained by the speaker, depending on the context. This adjustment of indirectness of reported speech can be viewed as a kind of hedge, in terms of relaxation of the degree of FTA, by making the information contents imprecise. Such linguistic behaviors that give consideration to the listener’s face or attempt to protect the speaker’s own face can, from the viewpoint of Grice’s cooperative principle, be said to be motives that produce non-compliance with the cooperative principle via intensification of the indirectness of reported speech.

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