How Do Japanese Language Learners Identify the Speaker of Conversation at the Beginning of Literary Fiction?

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  • ITO Takuto
    Graduate School of Language and Society, University of Hitotsubashi

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Other Title
  • 日本語学習者は小説冒頭の会話文の発話主をどのように同定しているか
  • 中国語を母語とする中上級学習者を例に

Abstract

<p>  The present study investigated how Japanese language learners identify the speaker of conversation appearing in the first lines of Japanese literary fiction. The participants in our experiments were intermediate and advanced learners whose native language is Chinese. The procedure was (1) translating the lines into Chinese and (2) multifaceted questions on the content of the story. The results showed that the speaker is identified by the following factors: (1) the sentence-ending particles and conjunctive expressions in the quoted clauses, (2) the conjunctive expressions, the directives, and clause-final modality forms in the narrative parts, and (3)the speaker of other conversations. In addition, factors causing misreading included lack of knowledge of cultural convention and the genre, misuse of vocabulary/grammar knowledge, and another misunderstanding of the content of the narrative. Moreover, in some cases, misreading was avoided by noticing a problem with textual coherence and attempting to reconstruct the context.</p>

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Details 詳細情報について

  • CRID
    1390015333262881792
  • DOI
    10.19011/sor.64.2_69
  • ISSN
    2424144X
    0387284X
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
  • Abstract License Flag
    Disallowed

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