コンナ類における感情·評価性の再考察

Abstract

It has been reported in previous studies that in contemporary Japanese, emotiveness/evaluativeness emerges in the use of adnominal demonstrative expressions of the konna-group (konna, sonna, anna). In the past literature, however, the fundamental issue has not been seriously discussed of whether these emotive/evaluative meanings are inherent to the aforementioned demonstrative expressions. In the present article, we critically examine three primary works which directly address the emotive/evaluative aspect of the demonstrative expressions of the konna-group, through corpus-driven and questionnaire-based analyses. In order to overcome the residual problems of these previous works, we explore the mechanism whereby emotive/evaluative meanings arise and make a new proposal. Our study reveals the following three points. (i) emotive/evaluative meanings are not inherent to the demonstrative expressions but emerge reflecting the context in which these expressions are employed. (ii) Contextual factors affecting the emergence of emotive/evaluative meanings include the post-demonstrative noun, adjectival expressions, negative form of the predicate part, negative elements, constructional conditions such as rhetorical questions. (iii) The demonstrative expressions of the konna-group, therefore, serve as a device which amplifies emotive/evaluative meanings which the speaker and the hearer recognize in the context in question. It is also presumed with regard to point (iii) above that the amplifying function is most prominently detected in the demonstrative expressions of the konna-group.