The Classification of Japanese Evaluative Expressions and the Construction of a Dictionary of Attitudinal Lexis: An Interpretation from Appraisal Perspective
アイテムタイプ
紀要論文 / Departmental Bulletin Paper
言語
日本語
キーワード
評価表現, 感情表現, アプレイザル理論, 現代日本語書き言葉均衡コーパス, 価値基準
キーワード(英)
evaluative expression, emotive expression, Appraisal theory, the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese, value system
This study aims to describe the classification of Japanese evaluative expressions according to value types, and to construct a dictionary of attitudinal lexis based on the classification. For the classification, the English system of ATTITUDE proposed by Appraisal theory was modified for application to Japanese based on the examination of 8,544 evaluative expressions that were collected from a dictionary. As for the construction of the dictionary of attitudinal lexis, the 8,544 expressions were annotated based on the modified system of ATTITUDE. In addition, the present study tested the validity of the modified system, using the Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese. From the corpus, 182,351 evaluative expressions were identified, and the relationship between the types of evaluative expressions and the categories of the Nihon Decimal Classification were investigated using a multivariate statistical analysis. The result of the analysis indicates that similar categories in the modified system are, in fact, utilised in the same or similar kinds of Nihon Decimal Classification categories, supporting the validity of the modified system from the perspective of Harris's distributional hypothesis.