コンナ類とコノヨウナ類の指示用法の違いについて -文脈指示の属性用法と内容用法を中心に-

Abstract

There is a wealth of previous studies on adnominal demonstrative expressions in Japanese, where the differences between the konna-group and the konoyouna-group have been largely regarded as stylistic variants. The present study, however, reveals their non-stylistic differences in terms of the referential use. Our claims are based on (i) a quantitative analysis of the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics) and (ii) a qualitative analysis employing text-frames. Our central finding is that the konna-group exhibits both the attributive and the content use whereas the konoyouna-group principally exhibits the content use alone. That is, while it is possible that the konoyouna-group could display the attributive use, a sharp contrast is observed in this regard between the two groups, as confirmed by both the quantitative and qualitative analyses. This finding leads to our conclusion that, contrary to the opposing view in the previous literature, the differences between the konna-group and the konoyouna-group cannot be solely ascribed to stylistic differences. It is also suggested that, due to this discrepancy concerning the usages of demonstratives, sonna is most likely to be employed in the konna-group (i.e., konna, sonna, anna) regardless of the media/genre of texts, whereas there is a tendency that konoyouna is used in certain types of text such as analytical texts in the case of the konoyouna-group (i.e., konoyouna, sonoyouna, anoyouna).