YOSHIMURA Akiko

Faculty Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Group of Language and CultureProfessor
Last Updated :2025/04/27

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Profile Information

  • Name (Japanese)

    YOSHIMURA

  • Name (Kana)

    Akiko

Degree

  • Master of Arts (English Linguistics), Osaka University, Mar. 1990
  • Ph.D (Linguistics), Osaka University, Mar. 1997

Research Interests

  • 言語学・英語学
  • 意味論・語用論
  • 認知語用論
  • 推論
  • implicit meaning (implicature)
  • explicit meaning (expllicature)
  • irony
  • metaphor
  • negative polarity
  • communication
  • Utterance Interpretation

Research Areas

  • Humanities & social sciences, English linguistics

Research History

  • Apr. 2012 - Present, Nara Womens University, Faculty Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor, Japan
  • Apr. 2017 - Mar. 2021, Nara Women's University, Vice President (International Affairs)
  • Apr. 2005 - Mar. 2012, Faculty of Letters, Nara Women's University, Faculty of Letters, Professor
  • Apr. 1999 - Mar. 2005, Nara Womens University, Faculty of Letters, associate professor, Japan

Education

  • Feb. 1993 - Mar. 1993, University of London,, School of Oriental and African Studies,, Linguistic Department, United Kingdom
  • Apr. 1990 - Mar. 1993, Osaka University, Graduate School of Letters, 博士後期課程, Japan
  • Apr. 1988 - Mar. 1990, Osaka University, Graduate School of Letters, 博士前期課程, Japan
  • Apr. 1979 - Mar. 1983, Osaka University, Faculty of Letters, 文学科 英語学専攻, Japan

Teaching Experience

  • Apr. 2022 - Sep. 2022

Professional Memberships

  • American Pragmatics Association
    Apr. 2012 - Present
  • 日本語用論学会
    Dec. 1999 - Present
  • Linguistics Association of Great Britain
    May 1995 - Present
  • 関西言語学会
    Nov. 1989 - Present
  • 日本英語学会
    Apr. 1989 - Present
  • 阪大英文学会
    Apr. 1988 - Present

Social Activities

  • 2020

Academic Activities

  • 『言語研究』(日本言語学会学会誌), 2020 - 2020
  • 市河賞審査委員会(著書), 語学教育研究所, 01 Apr. 2014 - 31 Mar. 2017
  • English Linguistics (日本英語学会学会誌), 2016 - 2016
  • 日本英語学会学会賞審査委員会（著書）, 日本英語学会, 2015 - 2015
  • Lingua, Elsevier, 2015 - 2015
  • Journal of Pragmatics, Elsevier, 2014 - 2014

■Ⅱ．研究活動実績

Published Papers

  • Refereed, _Studies in Pragmatics_ （The Pragmatics Society of Japan）, "Story Metaphors and Recognition of Metaphoricity", YOSHIMURA Akiko, Mar. 2025, 26, 1, 23, Scientific journal
  • Refereed, 『人間文化総合科学研究科年報』第39号, pp.1-14, Limitations of Utterance-Based Irony Analyses, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Not Refereed, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Not Refereed, 30 Dec. 2022, 第10号,, 57, 76,, Scientific journal
  • Not Refereed, 30 Dec. 2021, 第9号,, 91, 106,
  • Not Refereed, Nov. 2021, 1, 35,
  • Not Refereed, 30 Dec. 2020, 第8号,, 43, 59,, Scientific journal
  • Not Refereed, _Studies in European and American Language and Culture_,, Society for the Study of European and American Language and Culture, Faculty of Letters, Nara Women's University, “Another Property of Irony: Findings from Observing Story Ironies” (single-author), YOSHIMURA Akiko, 30 Dec. 2019, Vol.7,, 15, 35,, Scientific journal
  • Not Refereed, 25 Sep. 2018, 285, 304,, In book
  • Not Refereed, 30 Dec. 2017, 第5号,, 23, 45,, Scientific journal
  • Not Refereed, 31 Mar. 2017, 465, 470,, In book
  • Not Refereed, Mar. 2017, 第12号,, 177, 182,, Research institution
  • Not Refereed, The Timing of Introducing English Study : Language and Communicational Abilities, 30 Dec. 2016, 第4号,, 4, 33, 50,, Scientific journal
  • Refereed, Deduced Implicatures and Created Implicatures, 2016, Vol.33,, 209, 215,, Scientific journal
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  • Not Refereed, Attributive Negation and Descriptive Negation, 30 Dec. 2015, 第3号,, 3, 37, 70,, Scientific journal
  • Not Refereed, 14 Mar. 2015, 513, 524,, In book
  • Not Refereed, 30 Dec. 2014, 第2号,, 43, 58,, Scientific journal
  • Not Refereed, "Relevance and Another Type of Implicature" (single-author), YOSHIMURA Akiko, Dec. 2014, 379, 386,, International conference proceedings, True
  • Refereed, _Journal of Pragmatics_, ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, Descriptive/metalinguistic Dichotomy?: Toward a New Taxonomy of Negation, Akiko Yoshimura, This paper proposes, based on Japanese data, that Horn's (1985) descriptive/metalinguistic dichotomy of negation should be replaced with a distinction between OBJECTION and DESCRIPTION, and that the taxonomy with an abstract, logical view of negation should be replaced by a functional, cognitive-pragmatic (relevance-theoretic) view. Horn's descriptive negation (DN) represents a truthfunctional operator, taking a proposition p into a proposition not-p, and "metalinguistic" negation (MN) represents a non-truth-functional operator, objecting to a previous utterance. While it is hard for English to distinguish ON from MN based only on their forms, Japanese external negation is marked by a number of forms, each of which is sensitive to different properties. Based on a close examination of three Japanese negatives, nai (:= not), node wa nai it is not that...) and wake de wa nai it does not follow/mean that...), this paper extracts three properties that contribute to the taxonomy of negation (i.e. objection as a function, attribution in Wilson's (2000) sense, and the conceptuality of the negation target), and concludes that the 'attribution' of the lower representation (and its resulting function 'objection'), but not truth-functionality, is a crucial property for the dichotomy of (at least Japanese) sentence negation. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved., Oct. 2013, Vol.57,, 39, 56,, Scientific journal, True, 10.1016/j.pragma.2013.07.002
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  • Not Refereed, 14 Mar. 2012, 511, 525,, In book
  • Not Refereed, 15 Nov. 2011, Vol.30, 14, 106, 114,, Scientific journal
  • Not Refereed, _Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the Pragmatics Society of Japan_, "On Horn's Descriptive/Metalinguistic Dichotomy of Negation"（single-author）, YOSHIMURA Akiko, 03 Nov. 2010, 217, 220, International conference proceedings
  • Not Refereed, 18 Jun. 2010, 332, 356,, In book
  • Not Refereed, Annual report of Graduate Division of Human Culture, Nara Women's University, Metalinguistic Negation and "wake de wa nai" in Japanese, Yoshimura Akiko, 31 Mar. 2010, 第25号,, 1, 13,, Scientific journal
  • Refereed, Mar. 2010, 第23号,, 25, 37,, Scientific journal
  • Not Refereed, Mar. 2009, 第5号,, 57, 69,, Research institution
  • Not Refereed, Nov. 2007, 149, 169,, In book
  • Not Refereed, Mar. 2006, 第2号,, 135, 146,, Research institution
  • Not Refereed, Mar. 2004, 617, 631,, In book
  • Not Refereed, _Proceedings of the Sophia Symposium on Negation_, ed. by Yasu-hiko Kato, Sophia University, Tokyo., "A Cognitive-Pragmatic Approach to Metalinguistic Negation" (single-author), YOSHIMURA Akiko, Feb. 2002, 113, 132,, International conference proceedings
  • Not Refereed, Dec. 2000, 第44号,, 51, 66,, Scientific journal
  • Not Refereed, Bulletin of the Language Institute of Gakushuuin University No. 24, Gakushuin University, “The Target of Metalinguistic Use of Negation: A Unified Characterization from the Cognitive Processing Point of View” (single-author), YOSHIMURA Akiko, Dec. 2000, 第24号,, 109, 118,, International conference proceedings, True
  • Not Refereed, Nov. 2000, 第29巻, 第11号, 52, 58,, Scientific journal
  • Not Refereed, Oct. 2000, 第146巻, 第7号, 438, 439,
  • Not Refereed, Mar. 2000, 961, 972,, In book
  • Not Refereed, Dec. 1998, 第144巻, 第9号, 544, 546,, Scientific journal
  • Not Refereed, Mar. 1998, 第37号,, 37, 130, 151,, Research institution
  • Refereed, _Relevance Theory: Applications and Implications_, John Benjamins,, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, "Procedural Semantics and Metalinguistic Negation" (single-author), YOSHIMURA Akiko, Dec. 1997, 105, 122,, International conference proceedings, True
  • Not Refereed, Osaka Gakuin University Foreign Linguistic and Literary Studies, "Negative Polarity in Comparatives: The Need for Contrastive Assumptions", YOSHIMURA Akiko, Mar. 1996, No.33,, 33, 152, 173,, Scientific journal, True
  • Not Refereed, _Osaka University Papers in English Linguistics_,, "Negative Polarity Phenomena in Adversative Constructions" (joint paper), YOSHIMURA Akiko; Michael T. Wescoat, Dec. 1995, Vol. 2,, 211, 221,, Research institution
  • Not Refereed, Sep. 1995, 第32号,, 32, 32, 56,, Research institution
  • Not Refereed, Apr. 1995, 第26巻, 第1号, 3, 15,
  • Refereed, _Proceedings of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS 20)_,, "A Cognitive Constraint on Negative Polarity Phenomena" (single-author), YOSHIMURA Akiko, Dec. 1994, 599, 610,, Scientific journal, True
  • Not Refereed, _Osaka University Papers in English Linguistics_,, "Pragmatic and Cognitive Aspects of Negative Polarity" (single-author), YOSHIMURA Akiko, Jul. 1993, Vol. 1,, 141, 173,, Scientific journal, True
  • Not Refereed, Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University, A Procedural View of Metalinguistic Negation, Yoshimura Akiko, Jul. 1993, 第27号, 文学篇, 33, 48,, Research institution
  • Not Refereed, _Osaka University Papers in English Lin-guistics_,, "Explicature and Implicature Formation in the Modeling of Metaphor and Metonymy" (single-author), YOSHIMURA Akiko, Jul. 1993, Vol. 1,, 175, 184,, Scientific journal, True
  • Refereed, _English Linguistics_,, "The Cognitive Structure of Negation as an NPI-Licensing Condition" (single-author), YOSHIMURA Akiko, This paper argues that negative polarity items like any and ever are words which constrain mental processes in the sense of Blakemore (1987), and this may be viewed as an NPI-licensing condition. These words require that a proposition corresponding to an utterance containing NPIs should be processed in what I call the cognitive structure of negation. Relevance theory, proposed by Sperber and Wilson (1986), provides an adequate way of describing this mental process. The infelicity of NPIs in certain environments which would pose problems for Ladusaw (1979) is explicable under my analysis. It leads us to an interesting claim about the human congnitive processing procedure. © 1992, The English Linguistic Society of Japan. All rights reserved., Nov. 1992, Vol.9,, 244, 264,, Scientific journal, True, 10.9793/elsj1984.9.244
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  • Not Refereed, 20 Jul. 1992, 355, 369,, In book
  • Not Refereed, Dec. 1990, No.29,, 36, 50,, Research institution
  • Not Refereed, Dec. 1989, No.28,, 16, 29,, Scientific journal, 10.18910/25546
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  • Not Refereed, 2. 2023, 11号, 63, 75
  • Refereed, 3. 2024, 39, 1, 14

MISC

  • Not Refereed, 01 Aug. 2014, Vol.63, 5, 91, 92,, Book review
  • Not Refereed, Oct. 2013, Vol.21,, 6,, Others
  • Not Refereed, 01 Mar. 2013, Vol.61, 13, 95, 96,, Book review
  • Not Refereed, 27 Feb. 2009, Others
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  • Not Refereed, Jul. 2008, Vol.37, No.7, 119,, Book review
  • Not Refereed, 01 Feb. 2008, Others
  • Refereed, _Studies in English Literature_, "Review: Robyn Carston: Thoughts and Utterances: the Pragmatics of Explicit Communication"(single-author), YOSHIMURA Akiko, Mar. 2006, English Numver 47,, 316, 323,, Book review
  • Not Refereed, Sep. 2004, 2004-V, No.848, 40, 45,, Introduction other
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  • Not Refereed, Feb. 2004, Vol.73,, 1, 2,, Introduction other
  • Refereed, _Studies in English Literature_,, “Review: Ton van der Wouden: Negative Contexts: Collocation, Polarity and Multiple Negation” (single-author), YOSHIMURA Akiko, Mar. 2000, English Numver 2000,, 136, 142,, Book review
  • Not Refereed, Jan. 2000, 第145巻, 第10号, 659,, Introduction scientific journal
  • Not Refereed, Oct. 1999, 第145巻, 第7号, 465,, Introduction scientific journal
  • Not Refereed, Jul. 1999, 第145巻, 第4号, 231, Introduction scientific journal
  • Not Refereed, Apr. 1999, 第145巻, 第1号, 41,, Introduction scientific journal
  • 2. 2020, 第8号, 43, 59,

Books etc

  • Mar. 2025, 9784780313680
  • A Natural History of Negation, Laurence Horn, 27 Nov. 2018, 858,, pp.199-490,, Not Refereed, 9784894765771
  • 27 Nov. 2018, 345, pp.68-125, Not Refereed, 9784758913720
  • 22 Nov. 2013, 220, pp.177-206, Not Refereed, 9784874246009
  • 18 Jun. 2012, 541, Not Refereed, 9784269770454
  • 18 Jun. 2010, 494, Not Refereed, 9784758921527
  • 20 Apr. 2009, 220, pp.25-51, Not Refereed, 9784254515626
  • May 2008, 98, pp.37-83, Not Refereed
  • Mar. 2007, 350, Not Refereed
  • May 2003, 223, pp.1-102, Not Refereed, 4327257214
  • 10 May 2001, pp.194-211, Not Refereed, 9784469041576
  • Feb. 2001, 108, 1-108, Not Refereed
  • 20 Feb. 1999, 302, pp.1-291+xi, Not Refereed, 4269770279
  • Jan. 1999, Not Refereed

Presentations

  • 08 Mar. 2025
  • 30 Jun. 2023
  • Oral presentation, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Nominated symposium, 04 Sep. 2021, 03 Sep. 2021 - 05 Sep. 2021
  • 18 Dec. 2020, False
  • YOSHIMURA Alkiko, 16th International Pragmatics Conference, Lecture (IPrA16), (at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, CHINA), “Another Property of Irony: Findings from Observing Story Ironies”, Oral presentation, 10 Jun. 2019, International Pragmatics Association, Hong Kong, China, True
  • YOSHIMURA Akiko, The 29th Nara Women’s University Linguistics Seminar, Oral Presentation,, “On Story Irony”, Oral presentation, 11 May 2019
  • Invited oral presentation, 18 Dec. 2015
  • Invited oral presentation, 21 Nov. 2015
  • Oral presentation, 01 Sep. 2015
  • Public discourse, 03 Aug. 2015, Japan
  • YOSHIMURA Akiko, The 2nd International Conference of American Pragmatics Assocition (AMPRA2), Lecture, (at UCLA, USA), "Recognition of Metaphoricity", Oral presentation, 19 Oct. 2014, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA, United States, True
  • YOSHIMURA Akiko, The 7th Nara Women's University Linguistics Seminar, Oral Presentation,, "Metaphoricity", Oral presentation, 13 Sep. 2014
  • YOSHIMURA Akiko, The 16th Annual Conference of Pragmatics Society of Japan, Symposium on ‘Implicature,’ Lecture, (at Keio University, JAPAN), “Relevance and Another Type of Implicature”, Nominated symposium, 08 Dec. 2013, Tokyo, Japan, True
  • YOSHIMURA Akiko, 13th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA 2013), Lecture, (at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, INDIA), “Attribution and Japanese Negation”, Oral presentation, 09 Sep. 2013, International Pragmatics Association, New Delhi, INDIA, India, True
  • YOSHIMURA Akiko, The 3rd Nara Women’s University Linguistics Seminar, Oral Presentation,, “On Attribution”, Oral presentation, 07 Aug. 2013
  • 08 Oct. 2011
  • Invited oral presentation, 30 May 2010
  • Oral presentation, 09 Mar. 2010
  • YOSHIMURA Akiko, The 12th Annual Meeting of Pragmatic Society of Japan (at Ryukoku University, JAPAN) Workshop 2: “Aspects of Negation: Neo-Gricean, Relevance-Theoretic and Cognitive Linguistic perspectives,” Panelist,, “On Horn’s Metalinguistic Negation”, Nominated symposium, 05 Dec. 2009, Ryukoku University, Kyoto, JAPAN, Japan, True
  • YOSHIMURA Akiko, The Annual Meeting of Linguistic Association of Great Britain 2009 (LAGB 2009, at University of Edinburgh, SCOTLAND), "Descriptibe/ Metalinguistic Dichotomy?: A New Taxonomy of Negation", Oral presentation, 08 Sep. 2009, Edinburgh, SCOTLAND, True
  • Public discourse, 07 Jul. 2009, Japan
  • Oral presentation, 09 May 2009, Japan
  • Oral presentation, 18 Oct. 2008, Japan
  • 25 Nov. 2007
  • 11 Dec. 2004
  • 17 Nov. 2001
  • YOSHIMURA Akiko, Machikaneyama Kotoba-no Kai (at Osaka University, JAPAN), Lecture,, “Negative Contexts and Bipolar Elements in Japanese”, 26 May 2001, Department of English Linguistics, Graduate School of Osaka University, Osaka University, Japan, True
  • YOSHIMURA Akiko, Sophia Symposium on Negation (at Sophia University, JAPAN), Lecture,, “The Target of Metalinguistic Negation: A Unified Characterization from the Cognitive Processing Point of View”, 07 May 2001, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, Japan, True
  • 22 Jul. 2000
  • “Negative Polarity in Discourse: A Logico-Cognitive Approach”, 23 Nov. 1997
  • 25 May 1997
  • 26 Oct. 1996
  • YOSHIMURA Akiko, The Autumn Meeting 1995, Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB 1995, at University of Essex, UK), Lecture,, “Negative Polarity in Comparatives: The Need for Contrastive Assumptions”, 20 Sep. 1995, True
  • 13 Nov. 1994
  • YOSHIMURA Akiko, The 20th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS 20, at University of California, Berkeley, USA), Lecture,, “A Cognitive Constraint on Negative Polarity Phenomena”, 20 Feb. 1994, True
  • YOSHIMURA Akiko, 4th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA 1993, at Shoin Women’s University in Kobe, JAPAN), Lecture,, “Negative Polarity Phenomena in Adversative Constructions”, 30 Jul. 1993, True
  • YOSHIMURA Akiko, 4th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA 1993, at Shoin Women’s University in Kobe, JAPAN), Lecture,, "A Procedural Perspective on the Interpretation of Rhetorical Tropes”, 26 Jul. 1993, True
  • YOSHIMURA Akiko, International Conference on the Theory of Relevance (at Osaka International House Foundation), Lecture,, “A Procedural View of Metalinguistic Negation”, 29 May 1993, True
  • YOSHIMURA Akiko, 41th Machikane-yama Kotoba-no Kai (at Osaka University), Lecture,, “A Procedural Perspective on the Interpretation of Metaphor and Metonymy.”, 14 Jan. 1993, True
  • Nominated symposium, 21 Nov. 1992
  • Oral presentation, 07 Nov. 1992
  • Oral presentation, 23 Nov. 1991
  • Oral presentation, 14 Oct. 1990
  • Oral presentation, 18 Nov. 1989
  • Oral presentation, 30 Jun. 2023

Awards

  • Oct. 2015, Japan
  • Oct. 1999, Japan

Research Projects

  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2023, 18K00650, アイロニーと認識に関する認知語用論的研究, 吉村あき子, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Nara Women's University, 4160000, 3200000, 960000, 「明日はいい天気だよ」という友人の言葉を信じて一緒にピクニックに出かけ、大雨に降られてその友人に「本当にいい天気ね」というとアイロニーである。現時点(2020.06.13)では、「アイロニーの話者は、発話時点の話者以外の誰かに帰属される思考に対して乖離的態度を表現する」(Wilson 2009)というアイロニーの言語学的定義が広く受け入れられているが、これはギリシア悲劇や状況アイロニーを説明できない。ピクニックの例はことばのアイロニーであり、オイディプス王は出来事の成り行きに感じるストーリー・アイロニー(本研究の用語)である。本研究は、人がアイロニー性を認識する限りにおいて、分析対象のレベルを超えて何らかの共通点があると仮定し、認知処理プロセスの視点から、何が人にアイロニー性を認識させるのかを明らかにすることによって、アイロニーの本質解明を目指すものである。
    平成３１(令和１)年度は、ストーリー・アイロニーに焦点を当て、アイロニー性に貢献する認知語用論的特性を抽出/ 特定し、その成果を第１６回国際語用論学会で口頭発表した。例えば人は、『オイディプス王』のストーリー（「父親を殺す」という神託を受けたオイディプスは、それを避けるために国を離れ、たどり着いた国で怪物退治に関わるが、それと知らずに実の父親を殺すことになる）にアイロニーを感じる。状況アイロニーを含むストーリー・アイロニーをデータに、日本人被験者に調査を実施し、アイロニー性に貢献する認知特性を抽出し、その妥当性を確認した。すなわち、少なくとも日本人がアイロニー(皮肉)を認識するストーリーは、a「対象に対する先行認識と現実認識の間の反対関係的な偽の構造」(河上2018)が生じていること、b先行認識に伴われる意図/願望に基づく行動が現実認識の事象が生じる原因になっていることによって特徴づけられることを明らかにした。, kaken
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  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2018, 26370566, A Cognitive-Pragmatic Approach to Implicatures and Inference Rules: The Mechanism of Drawing Implicatures, YOSHIMURA Akiko, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Nara Women's University, 4550000, 3500000, 1050000, This research aimed at finding out what inference rules actually contribute to the online processes of drawing implicatures in our communication and stipulating a general constraint on the process. Based on the analyses of various cases of implicatures in Japanese and English contexts, this research revealed that, contra Sperber and Wilson's (1995) claims, two types of inference other than deduction, i.e. induction (e.g. abstraction) and abduction, actually contribute to drawing implicatures, and claimed that "Relevance-Guided Comprehensio Heuristic" plays a crucial role as a constraint on this online implicature-drawing process, i.e. to stop the process at a proper point.
    As for the classification of implicatures, based on the characteristics of the inference rules (whether the hearer's knowledge is expanded or not), this research proposed the dichotomy of implicatures: analytic implicatures and ampliative implicatures., url
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  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 2011 - 2013, 23520586, A Cognitive-Pragmatic Approach to Taxonomy of Negation: Revisit to Descriptive/Metalinguistic Negation, AKIKO Yoshimura, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Nara Women's University, 3640000, 2800000, 840000, This research proposes that Horn's (1985) descriptive/metalinguistic dichotomy of negation should be replaced with a distinction between OBJECTION and DESCRIPTION, and that the taxonomy with an abstract, logical view of negation should be replaced by a functional, cognitive-pragmatic (relevance-theoretic) view. Horn's descriptive negation (DN) represents a truth-functional operator, taking a proposition p into a proposition not-p, and "metalinguistic" negation (MN) represents a non-truth-functional operator, objecting to a previous utterance. This research extracts three properties that contribute to the taxonomy of negation (i.e. objection as a function, attribution in Wilson's(2000) sense, and the conceptuality of the negation target), and concludes that the 'attribution' of the lower representation (and its resulting function 'objection'), but not truth-functionality, is a crucial property for the dichotomy of sentence negation., url
    対象リソースIRI
  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 2007 - 2009, 19520424, A Cognitive-Pragmatic Approach to the Interpretation Process of Metaphorical Utterances, YOSHIMURA Akiko, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Nara Women's University, 3250000, 2500000, 750000, Metaphor is based on the cognition of various levels of similarity. This research revealed two points : 1) that metaphorical-utterance interpretations involve the addressee's construction, with her/his minimal efforts, of an abstracted schema which is the result of an elaboration to include its source as a prototype and its target as a (peripheral) member, and 2) that metaphorical utterances based on the story-level similarity communicate a new type of implicatures drawn by relevance-constrained inductive inference rules. These results lead to the radical modification and advancement of the most promising cognitive pragmatic theory, "Relevance Theory"., url
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  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 2005 - 2007, 17520327, A Cognitive Pragmatics Approach to Metarepresentational Ability and Language Acquisition, UCHIDA Seiji; YOSHIMURA Akiko; MATSUI Tomoko, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Nara Women's University, 3560000, 3200000, 360000, The theme of the present research is to try to explore based on relevance theory how metarepresentaition is incorporated into language. Uchida chaired a symposium titled 'On metarepresentation' at the 24th national convention of the English Linguistic Society of Japan. He also read a paper and Matusi contributed to the symposium as one of the speakers. Matusi covered a wide range of metarepresentational phenomena and Uchida introduced a new approach to quotation.
    The research results are seen in Uchida (2005, 2007a, 2007b), Yoshimura (2006, 2007a, 2007b), and Matsui (2005a, 2005b, 2006a, 2006b, 2007a, 2007b). Among others, Uchida (2005) applies metarepresentational phenomena to free indirect speech and Uchida (2007a) succeeds in explaining a relationship between deixis and metarepresentation.
    Language acquisition is especially discussed in Uchida (2007b) and Matsui (2005a, 2005b). Uchida (2007b) takes Japanese verbs kureru / morau / ageru as linguistic items where metarepresentational processes are linguistically realized. Matsui (2005a, 2005b) discuss datte in the view of theory of mind. Yoshimura (2006) surveys previous studies on metalinguistic negation and proposes her own original ideas, which leads to the present research.
    Uchida, et. al. (2008) is a translation of Robyn Carston's Thoughts and Utterances: The Pragmatics of Explicit Communication, to which Uchida and Matsui contributed. The book is a major publication in relevance theory since Sperber and Wilson's Relevance: Communication and Cognition, and the present translation will be of great help to the students and researchers in Japan who are interested in cognitive pragmatics and/or relevance theory., kaken
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  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 2002 - 2005, 14510521, Cognitive Pragmatic Approach to Metalinguistic Negation, YOSHIMURA Akiko, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Nara Women's University, 3200000, 3200000, The result of this research consists of three points:
    (1) The target of metalinguistic negation is stipulated as "what is necessarily or generally accompanied but not communicated by its attributed utterance or thought."
    (2) The encoded meaning of negatives in natural languages is more general than a truth-functional operator: The target of negation as a definition is not confined to the truth conditional meaning but includes what is necessarily or generally accompanied by its attributed utterance or thought.
    (3) The Japanese language has a specific marker to indicate metarepresentational use of language, such as 〜no de wa nai.
    All the uses of negation in natural languages are fundamentally metarepresentational. Metarepresentational Negation is classified into two groups: attributive use of negation and non-attributive use of negation. Each of these is again classified into two : meta-conceptual negation and meta-linguistic negation. Horn(1985)'s descriptive negation will be included in the non-attributive use of negation and his metalinguistic negation will be included in the attributive use of negation., kaken
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  • Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 1998 - 1999, 10610479, The Mechanism of Human Cognition on Polarity Contexts, YOSHIMURA Akiko, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 2700000, 2700000, It is generally accepted that negative contexts in natural languages are monotone decreasing (MD) while positive contexts are monotone increasing (MI). Van der Wouden (1997) claims, based on his data from Dutch, that natural languages universally have a hierarchy of negative contexts which can be defined by the three Boolean properties, i.e.monotone decreasing(MD), anti-additive(AA), antimorphic(AM). This research examined its universality, discovered another property which contributes to the distinction of negative contexts in English and Japanese, and showed that the defining properties of the hierarchy of negation vary among languages. The main results are as follows : (a) native speakers of English are sensitive not to the above three properties but to what we called a'double negative property (DN)', (b) English language has a bias to the weak negative polarity items (NPIs), i.e., that a large part of English NPIs appear in the weakest MD negative contexts, (c) native speakers of Japanese are sensitive to DN and AM properties, (d) Japanese language has a bias to the strong NPIs, i.e., that most of the Japanese NPIs appear in the strongest AM negative contexts and DN contexts, (e) like Dutch, Japanese has bipolar elements such as'itteki-demo', which appear only in the weakest MD and the middle AA negative contexts but not in positive MI contexts nor in the strongest AM negative contexts. What is called'polarity' forms a scale which has two poles of AM and MI, and several grades of negation between them. This research has shown that the ways of our recognizing negative contexts with different strength are not identical among natural languages, though the semantic property of negative environments in the widest sense is universal., kaken
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  • 研究助成, 1996 - 1998, 「否定とその関連表現の認知語用論的研究」, 吉村あき子, 大阪学院大学, 大阪学院大学研究助成, 大阪学院大学
  • 「研究成果公開促進費」(一般学術図書), 1998, Principal investigator, 『否定極性現象』, 吉村あき子, 文部科学省, 科学研究費補助金「研究成果公開促進費」(一般学術図書), 大阪学院大学
  • 基盤(C), Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2024, 18K00650, Principal investigator, アイロニーと認識に関する認知語用論的研究

■Ⅲ．社会連携活動実績

１．公的団体の委員等（審議会、国家試験委員、他大学評価委員，科研費審査委員等）

  • 日本語用論学会, 評議員, Apr. 2022 - Present
  • 日本英語学会, 評議員, Jul. 2010 - Present, 日本英語学会, Society
  • 日本英語学会, 理事, Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2022, 平成9年9月～平成12年3月 事務局書記
    平成16年12月～平成1９年11月 大会運営委員会委員
    平成21年7月1日～平成23年9月30日 English Linguistics編集委員
    平成22年７月～現在 評議員
    平成30年4月1日～現在 理事, Society
  • 奈良市立一条高等学校, 学校評議員, Apr. 2019 - Mar. 2021
  • 奈良地方裁判所, 地方裁判所委員会委員, Feb. 2016 - Jan. 2020
  • 阪大英文学会, 運営委員, Oct. 2014 - Sep. 2018, 阪大英文学会, Society
  • 日本学術振興会, 科学研究費委員会専門委員 (審査・評価第二部会 人文学・社会科学小委員会 基盤(Ｓ)）, Jan. 2017 - Dec. 2017
  • 日本語用論学会, 運営委員, Apr. 2016 - Mar. 2017, 日本語用論学会, Society
  • 関西言語学会, KLS運営委員・大会実行委員, Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2017, 関西言語学会, Society
  • 一般財団法人 語学教育研究所, 市河(三喜)賞委員会委員, Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2017
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid Examination committee member, Dec. 2013 - Nov. 2015
  • 日本英語学会, 学会誌 English Linguistics 編集委員, Jul. 2009 - Sep. 2012, 日本英語学会, Society
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Special Researcher Examination Committee member, Aug. 2011 - Jul. 2012
  • Ministry of Education, University establishment / school corporation council member, Apr. 2008 - Mar. 2011, Government
  • 日本言語学会, 大会運営委員, Apr. 2006 - Jun. 2009, 日本言語学会, Society
  • 日本英語学会, 大会運営委員, Dec. 2004 - Nov. 2007, 日本英語学会, Society
  • 日本英文学会, 関西支部大会準備委員, May 2004 - Mar. 2006, 日本英文学会, Society
  • 日本英語学会, 事務局書記(理事会・EL編集委員会担当), Aug. 1997 - Mar. 2000, 日本英語学会, Society
  • 日本英語学会, 評議員, 01 Apr. 2010
  • 日本語用論学会, 評議員, 01 Apr. 2022 - 31 Mar. 2025
  • 日本英語学会, 評議員, 01 Apr. 2010
  • 日本語用論学会, 評議員, 01 Apr. 2022 - 31 Mar. 2025
  • 日本英語学会, 評議員, Jul. 2010
  • 日本英語学会, 理事, 01 Apr. 2018 - 31 Mar. 2022