TERRITORY OF INFORMATION IN ENGLISH AND JAPANESE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL UTTERANCES

This paper presents a comparative pragmatic analysis of Japanese and E nglish based on the theory of territory of information developed in an earlier paper. The theory assumes that the notion of territory famili ar from studies on the behavior of animals (including human beings) is also relevant to the evidential aspect of language. On this assumptio n, it aims to specify the relationship between the forms of utterance and the notion of territory of information. This paper first presents a summary of an analysis of utterances in Japanese, developed in the e arlier paper, and then provides an analysis of English utterances with in the framework of the theory of territory of information. On the bas is of these results, it further attempts to analyze psychological utte rances in both languages and show that their pragmatic characters are also explained by the theory.