Text Type Classification in the Japanese Language
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https://doi.org/10.4312/ala.1.3.97-104Keywords:
classification, text type, evidential adverbs, evidential-modal expressionsAbstract
This paper deals with some recent approaches to Japanese text classification within the framework of Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics. Text types differ according to the properties of their respective field, tenor and mode. Classification approaches usually center on field properties as reflected in content words and their distribution in texts. On the other hand, approaches introduced in the present paper are based on evidential-modal meanings, expressed by evidential adverbs and sentence-final auxiliary evidential-modal expressions.
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Halliday, M. A. K. (1978). Language as social semiotic: The social interpretation of language and meaning. London: Edward Arnold.
Halliday, M. A. K. (1990). Some grammatical problems in scientific English. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 6, 13-37.
Hasan, R. (2009). The place of context in a systemic functional model. In M.A.K. Halliday & J. J. Webster (Eds.) Continuum companion to systemic functional linguistics (pp. 166-189), New York: Continuum.
Hodošček, B., Bekeš, A., & Nishina, K. (2009). Suiryôteki fukushi no kyoôkijôhô ni motozuita genre betsu no bunmatsu hyôgen no bunseki. Gengo shori gakkai dai 15 kai nenji taikai happyô ronbunshû (Proceedings of The Fifteenth Annual Meeting of The Association for Natural Language Processing), 598-601.
Hodošček, B. (2011). Word class ratios and genres in written Japanese: Revisiting the modifier verb ratio. Acta Lingusitica Asiatica, 1(1), 53-62.
Kabashima, T., & Jugaku, A. (1965). Buntai no kagaku [Stilistika]. Sogeisha.
Kudô, H. (2000). Fukushi to bun no chinjutsu no taipu (Adverbs and the type of sentence-final modality). In Y. Nitta & T. Masuoka (Eds.) Nihongo no bunpô 3 – modariti (Japanese grammar 3: modality) (pp. 161-234). Tokyo: Iwanami shoten.
Maekawa, K. (2007). Kotonoha and BCCWJ: Development of a balanced corpus of contemporary written Japanese. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Korean Language, Literature, and Culture, 2, 158 ‒ 177.
Sano, M. (2008). Text-classification system for large scale balanced corpus: A systemic functional approach. Proceedings of the 2008 General Meeting of the MEXT grant-in-aid for Scientific Research Priority Area Program "Japanese Corpus" [in Japanese].
Srdanović Erjavec, I., Bekeš, A., & Nishina, K. (2007). Cluster analysis of suppositional adverbs and clause-final modality. Asian and African Studies, 21-31.
Srdanović Erjavec, I., Bekeš, A., Nishina, K. (2008a) Distant collocations between suppositional adverbs and clause-final modality forms in Japanese language corpora. In Large-scale knowledge resources: Construction and application; Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4938 (pp. 252-266). Berlin: Springer.
Srdanović Erjavec, I., Bekeš, A., & Nishina, K. (2008b) Adverbs and clause-final modality collocations in various corpora. In Tokutei ryôiki kenkyû 'Nihongo koopasu': Heisei 19 nendo kôkai waakushoppu (kenkyûseika hôkokukai) yokôshû: 15.3.-16. 3. (pp. 223-230) Tokyo: Monbukagakushô kagakukenkyûhi tokuteiryôiki kenkyû 'Nihongo koopasu' Sôkatsu ban.
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BEKEŠ, A. (2012). Text Type Classification in the Japanese Language. Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 1(3), 97-104. https://doi.org/10.4312/ala.1.3.97-104
