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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782566603321

Autore

Onodera Noriko <1958->

Titolo

Japanese discourse markers : synchronic and diachronic discourse analysis / / Noriko O. Onedera

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004

ISBN

1-282-16005-2

9786612160059

90-272-9487-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (xiv, 251 pages)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond ; ; new ser. 132. , 0922-842X

Soggetti

Japanese language - Conjunctions

Japanese language - Discourse analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book is one of the pioneering historical pragmatic studies of Japanese. It closely illustrates the usage and contributions of some Japanese discourse markers, and reveals their developmental history. The section on Synchronic Analysis explores the previously uninvestigated functions of some discourse markers used in Present Day Japanese. Moment by moment in on-going conversations, where culturally rigidly-defined interactional norms are highly valued, a specific marker is chosen and used by the speakers as their strategy, based on their quite subjective judgment. The section on Diachronic Analysis then demonstrates chronologically how the meanings and forms of the same markers have come into being. Results include some noticeable changes related to the strengthened intersubjectivity. This multi-dimensional study also discusses the relevance of findings to typological characteristics and productivity. Consideration is further given to why certain expressions (rather than others) become discourse markers and independent forms in Japanese.