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This paper is for examining the uses of Quantifiers frequently encountered by learner of Japanese language, and will take Advertisement Titles in Japanese Newspaper, the most frequently used in daily life. For the actual uses of Quantifiers, survey in 3 levels — (1) contents of representations, (2) survey of vocabulary and (3) analysis of composition, from the angle of linguistics. The contents of survey in this research is mainly in the following 3 aspects. Firstly, Based on the indicating principles in the Asahi Shinbum News Words Manual published by Asahi Shinbum and separate them in 1. Digits, 2. Kanji numbers, 3. Classifiers, 4. Metering Unit and 5. Uncertain quantifiers. It is hoped to find out the indicative situation of quantifiers in modern Japanese language and to identify the characteristics of Japanese advertisement. Then there follows with the characteristics of the meaning of quantifiers, trying to analyze the composition of quantifiers / vocabularies in the advertisement titles. Also, through the analysis of quantifiers in advertisement titles in different trades, it intends to induce the common vocabularies and exclusive vocabularies, and compare the two categories to find the similarity and difference, also, it extends to the analysis of composition of new coinages. Thereafter, survey is made to the location of quantifiers in advertisement text, start of a sentence, end of a sentenced and between the start and the end, and independent for studying the composition of quantifiers and characteristics in advertisement title. Finally, in conclusion, through the result of such survey, we conclude the impact of quantifier in advertisement on consumers, both psychological level and to the society as a whole.
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