Involvement and Attitude in Japanese Discourse (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series) - Hardcover

Ogi, Naomi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027256772 ISBN 13: 9789027256775

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017

Synopsis

This book addresses the long discussed issue of Japanese interactive markers (traditionally called sentence-final particles) in a new light, and provides the comprehensive linguistic documentation of the interactional functions of seven interactive markers: ne, na, yo, sa, wa, zo and ze. By adopting three key notions, ‘involvement’, ‘formality’ and ‘gender’, the study not only reveals the functions and pragmatic effects of each marker, but also sheds light on some fundamental issues of the nature of spoken discourse in general, including how speakers collaborate with each other to create and sustain their conversations and how linguistic functions of verbal forms interface with sociocultural norms. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in a wide range of linguistic fields such as Japanese linguistics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and applied linguistics and to teachers and learners of Japanese and of a second/foreign language.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 9027256772
• ISBN 13: 9789027256775
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 244