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  <Title>Japanese Honorifics and Situation Semantics</Title>
  <Section position="7" start_page="509" end_page="509" type="concl">
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7. Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> It is easy to model honorific context in situation semantics. But we don't know how this context is represented in the human mind. This requires further research.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> This treatment of the context switching mechanisms of honorifics is a first step toward analyzing more complicated phenomena. The main contribution ~)f this model derives from the fact that in any complex sentence, there will probably be context switching on honorifics..But this model shows context switching in a complex sentence only and tttere remains more complicated phenomena like the following.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2">  because when R knows who llanako is, he refers to her with the nonhonorific &amp;quot;liana.&amp;quot; But we do not formalize the context switch which decides who is the agent of sentence $1. To solve this problem, we should use an &amp;quot;anaphora mechanism for the honorific context&amp;quot; and in order to build a firm model of this mechanism, study not only of the anaphora mechanism I Barwise 1985c1 but also the focusing mechanism \[Sidner\] is required. These also are topic for filrtbcr research.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> ACI(NOWlA~\]DGEMEN'rS 1 would like to thank Mr.Mukai of \[COT for his comments on context switching and Mr.Yokoi, the lleod of the Second Research Laboratory at ICOT, for his encouragement and for allowing nm ample time for this work.</Paragraph>
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