On How Speaker's and Participant's Viewpoints Function in Japanese : A cognitive approach to the reflexive jibun
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Previous work such as Kuno (1976) has analyzed Japanese sentences with the reflexive jibun in terms of the speaker's empathy assigned to a particular participant in an event. Pointing out that there are examples whose well-formedness cannot be properly accounted for solely with the notion of empathy, this paper proposes an alternative approach. The major claims are that the use of Japanese reflexive jibun is motivated by the mental transfer (Langacker 1987,1991) of the speaker's Viewpoint (Cutrer 1994; Fauconnier 1997) and the mental rotation (Shepard & Metzler 1971), and that the mental transfer is caused by a high degree (as opposed to the highest degree) of the speaker's empathy with a participant in an event. Also, it is argued that when jibun is used, the process of the speaker's construal of the event reflects a basic human cognitive ability, reference-point ability (Langacker 1993; Yamanashi 2000). In order to validate the claims and argument, this paper demonstrates the following : 1) the acceptability of examples not accounted for in Kuno's theory can be explained easily by proposing that the speaker's/narrator's highest degree of empathy motivates the blending (Fauconnier and Turner 1996) of the two Viewpoints; 2) The well-formedness or the opposite of sentences with the verbs of giving kureru and yaru can be explained using a unified notion of Viewpoint, if the centripetal and the non-centripetal properties of the verbs in relation to the locus of the speaker's Viewpoint are stipulated.
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- 2002-02-28
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