The Procedural Meaning of moji-dori ('literally')

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  • 「文字通り」の手続き的意味について
  • 「 モジドオリ 」 ノ テツズキ テキ イミ ニ ツイテ

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The purpose of this paper is to discuss the function of moji-dori ('literally') from a view of utterance interpretation. According to Momiyama (2014) and other studies, there can be several functions such as "drawing attention to the constituents of the modified elements", "interpreting them as literal meanings". There are two possible explanations for the function of moji-dori; one is to specify it as a polysemy, and the other is to interpret it as usages derived from a more general procedural meaning. For the purpose of this paper, the author would take the latter way and propose the procedural meaning of moji-dori as "forming a non-attributive metarepresentation of subsequent elements via para-linguistics information (i.e. orthographic form)", providing a relevance-theoretic account of the detailed process of interpreting the subsequent elements (Wilson and Sperber 1995, Wilson 2000).

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  • 言語科学論集

    言語科学論集 26 23-45, 2020-12

    Department of Linguistic Science, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University

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