확인요구 모달리티의 정보성

Abstract

This study is to find out differences of the information domains between the speaker and the listener focused on the basic forms of confirmation demand modality“ZYANAIKA”“DAROU”and“NE”, and to analyze them to know the confirmation of information. For this purpose, the research has been referred the scripts of Japanese movies, dramas and animations. The confirmation demand modality means that there exists the speaker and the listener in the communication and the speaker expects and demands the listener’s judgment to the recognition of the situation. This modality commonly uses rising intonation, which shows an interrogation to the listener. There are three forms of the confirmation demand modality, “ZYANAIK A”,“DAROU”and“NE”. “ZYANAIKA”involves the meaning of the speak er’s confirmation of information and this is the confirmation demand modality which leads the listener to agree that the speaker’s information is correct. “DAROU”leads the listener to speak when the speaker recognizes it while this modality is likely to depend on the listener for information when the speaker doesn’t recognize it. In the case of using“NE”, the speaker has a nuance that the speaker identifies his information according to the confidence to the listener’s information because the speaker has lack of confidence to his information. According to the tendency of the listener’s informational dependence, three forms of confirmation demand modality can be expressed like this: “ZYANAIKA”<“DAROU”?“NE”. In this expression, “DAROU”, which is the listener dependent form, means that there is no information to the speaker. When “DAROU” is the listener leading form, it can be expressed like this: “DAROU”<“ZYANAIKA” This expression means that“DAROU”shares the listener’s information with the speaker while“ZANAIKA”leads the listener’s information to confirm the speaker’s information. On this occasion, “NE” cannot be used similarly, for “NE” is not the kind of modality to lead the listener’s information. When“DAROU”is the listener dependent form, these three forms of modality, according to the confirmation of the speaker’s information, can be expressed like this: “DAROU”?“NE”<“ZYANAIKA”. In the sense of the information concerning, “DAROU” and “NE” are considered having same meaning, but “NE” shows more confirmation.