日本語の後置文 : 情報提示の方略

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In spoken Japanese, sentence elements are often placed in postverbal positionagainst the canonical SOV word order of Japanese. Previous studies cited here haveinvestigated the postposing constructiens in terms of the informational status ofpostposed elements, the speaker's cognitive status and so on. Unfortunately, however,there is a type of postposing construction which has fallen outside the scope ofinvestigation of those studies.The present study argues that the postposing constructien can justifiably beclassified into three subtypes. According to this analysis, the first two subtypes areuttered under the restriction of time and without an elaborate consideration of how toorganize the text, the postposed element being added as an afterthought. In contrast,the third subtype exemplifies the picture of utterance in which the speaker purposefullyreverses the word order to draw the hearer's attention to the postposed element,which no longer serves as an afterthought.It is also shown in this paper that some properties peculiar to this construction canbe accounted for within the framework of Relevance Theory.
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