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The book demonstrates that it is possible to study the language
faculty with the core scientific method, i.e., by deducing definite
predictions from hypotheses and obtaining and replicating
experimental results precisely in accordance with the predictions.
In light of the "reproducibility crisis" as extensively addressed
in recent years in a number of fields, the demonstration that
rigorous replication can be obtained in the study of the language
faculty in terms of correlational and categorical predictions is
particularly significant. While the claim has been made over the
years that Chomsky's research program is meant to be a scientific
study of the language faculty, a conceptual and methodological
articulation has never been made as to how we can accumulate our
knowledge about the language faculty by the basic scientific
method, including, most crucially, how exactly we can put our
hypotheses to rigorous empirical and experimental test. The book
proposes how to do that by providing a conceptual basis for the
methodology for language faculty science. The book also offers
empirical demonstrations of the viability of the proposed
methodology. The experiments were conducted with Japanese and
English speakers. Overall, the book explores new directions for the
study of the mind.
The volume on Semantics and Pragmatics presents a collection of
studies on linguistic meaning in Japanese, either as conventionally
encoded in linguistic form (the field of semantics) or as generated
by the interaction of form with context (the field of pragmatics),
representing a range of ideas and approaches that are currently
most influentialin these fields. The studies are organized around a
model that has long currency in traditional Japanese grammar,
whereby the linguistic clause consists of a multiply nested
structure centered in a propositional core of objective meaning
around which forms are deployed that express progressively more
subjective meaning as one moves away from the core toward the
periphery of the clause. The volume seeks to achieve a balance in
highlighting both insights that semantic and pragmatic theory has
to offer to the study of Japanese as a particular language and,
conversely, contributions that Japanese has to make to semantic and
pragmatic theory in areas of meaning that are either uniquely
encoded, or encoded to a higher degree of specificity, in Japanese
by comparison to other languages, such as conditional forms, forms
expressing varying types of speaker modality, and social deixis.
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