英文摘要 |
In this paper private telephone conversations were analyzed. 1047 kedo were used during the conversations of 10 hours 45 minutes in the LDC Corpus. Referred to National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics1951 and Morita1989, kedo were categorized into 6 usages and each usage of the data was counted. As a result the data show that contradictory usage accounts for only 12.7 percent. On the other hand kedo with the explanatory meanings such as introductory usage, revised usage, additional explanatory usage accounts for 40.7 percent in total. Modality usage accounts for 35.3 percent. Based on these results, it is considered that the key meaning of kedo is not a contradictory usage but an explanatory one. |