Published papers

日本語における「怒り」および「恐れ」の感情が、どのように概念化されているのかを明らかにすることを目的とした論文である。具体的には、メタファーおよびメトニミーの具体例を収集・分析することによって、これらの感情を支えていると思われる概念メタファー、および概念メトニミーの構造を解明することを目指している。

It seems to be a universal trait for human languages to have at their disposal various means of combining clauses together to form a more complex structure. In this paper the author attempts to make a contrastive study of clause-chaining in English and Japanese in terms of the coordinate conjunction and and its Japanese translation equivalents. More specifically, we compare “A Retrieved Reformation” by O. Henry with its Japanese translation available in two different versions in order to find out how and has been translated into Japanese. It was found that of the total 81 occurrences of and in the English text, 48 instances (59.3%) are used for chaining clauses, 22 instances for combining noun phrases, and 4 instances (4.9%) for connecting separate sentences, which together account for 91.4% of all occurrences of and in the text. We further examined the 96 instances of Japanese translation equivalents for and used for clause-chaining. The result shows that 60 instances (62.5%) are the -te form, and 19 instances (19.8%) are the literary gerund, or renyokei form, which add up to 82.3% of the total. This suggests that the clause-chaining strategy in Japanese is characterized by what Lehmann (1988) calls “elaboration.”

This paper is concerned with the question of how clauses are linked to form complex sentences in English and in Japanese. In particular, we focus on the “V1-te, V2” structure in Japanese, where V1 is the -te form of a verb, followed by another verb V2, which completes the sentence. The main function of -te, according to Alfonso (1974), is simply that of connecting: -te links two clauses without indicating any logical or temporal relationship between them. We compare Agatha Christie’s novel with its translation in Japanese in order to find out how this structure relates to its English equivalents. We argue that the clause linkage as exemplified by the “V1-te, V2” structure represents the case of “elaboration” as proposed by Lehmann (1988), whereas its English counterparts are best characterized by “condensation.” This leads us to the speculation that Japanese is a more orality-oriented language than English in the sense of Ong (1982). Finally, we attempt to interpret our findings in light of Sapir’s notion of the structural “genius” of the language.

Reading is basically a solitary process which takes place in the mind of the reader, and therefore it has often been neglected when one talks about communication skills in second language learning. This paper is a short report on the author’s experimental class which is designed to promote the students’ reading skills in a “communication-rich” environment. The author contends that reading skills can be promoted by integrating reading activities with communication activities. He describes in detail how this integration is made possible based on his own experience of designing and teaching a communication-oriented reading class in the Fall Semester of 1999, at Keio University, Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC).

日本語はしばしば曖昧な言語であるといわれるが、ここでは主語に関する問題に焦点をあて、その曖昧性を巡る問題を論じたものである。はじめに、「曖昧性」の意味を確認し、次に主題を表す助詞「は」の勢力範囲について考察した。最後に、「は」の勢力範囲を取り違えたことに起因する誤訳例を、サイデンステッカー氏の『山の音』の英訳の中から指摘し、「は」の特性を論じた。

英語で人の性格を表す表現にはどのようなものがあり、どのようなコンテクストにおいて使われるのか。このテーマに応えるべく、英語における性格を表す表現の具体的な用例を示しつつ、その使い方を示したもの。

This paper is concerned with the function of the 'no de aru' construction in the text. Our analysis of Mori Ogai's "The Wild Geese" has shown that this constrution tends to occur quite frequently at the end of the paragraph. This prominent distributional feature will be explained within the framework of the theory of cohesion, as proposed by Halliday and Hasan.