本書は、認知言語学的アプローチにより、付加疑問文の本質に迫ろうとするものである。先行研究では、用法の列挙と規則の提示に留まっており、用法間の関係や構造の変化を伴う事例に説明を与えていない。本書では、実際の使用例を認知文法の「現行談話スペース(Current Discourse Space)」と「Anchoring Structure」の概念に基づいて分析し、なぜ多様な意味機能と形式を持つのか、何が構造に変化を生じさせるのかを付加疑問文の持つ間主観性から明らかにしていく。
Contents


Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Tables
Abbreviations


Chapter 1　Introduction
1.1 Aims of the Study
1.2 Outline of the Study

Chapter 2　Two Issues Regarding Tag Questions
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The First Problem: the Structure of Tag Questions
2.3 The Second Problem: the Meanings and Functions of Tag Questions
2.4 Summary

Chapter 3　Cognitive Grammar and its Conceptual Innovations
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Fundamental Concepts of Cognitive Grammar
3.3 Current Discourse Space (CDS)
3.4 Anchoring Structure (Langacker 2009, 2015)
3.5 Summary

Chapter 4　The Meanings and Functions of Tag Questions in Terms of CDS Diagrams
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Semantic Meanings and Pragmatic Meanings
4.3 A Fundamental Pragmatic Approach based on Leech’s Communicative Grammar
4.4 A Formula of Tag Questions based on Wierzbicka’s Semantic Metalanguages
4.5 A Diagram for Tag Questions
4.6 An Analysis of Examples from Shakespearean Dramas
4.7 An Analysis of the Constructional-Extended Type of Tag Questions
4.8 Summary

Chapter 5　The Construction of Tag Questions Within the Framework of Anchoring Structure
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Structure of Tag Questions
5.3 Intersubjectivity and Anchoring Structure
5.4 An Explanation of Tag Questions based on Anchoring Structure
　5.4.1 An Analysis of Data from the BNC
　5.4.2 The Structure of the Prototypical Type
　5.4.3 The Structure of the Extended Type
5.5 Summary

Chapter 6　Tag Questions and Other Sentence-Ending Expressions
6.1 Introduction
6.2 An Overview of Japanese Ending Particles
6.3 A Parallelism between Ending Particles and Extended Types of Tags
6.4 An Analysis of their Construals
6.5 Summary

Chapter 7　Conclusion


Referrences
Index