LEADER 03734nam 22005652 450 001 9910511336503321 005 20140616133431.0 010 $a1-4725-9379-0 010 $a1-4725-7762-0 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472593795 035 $a(CKB)3710000000260000 035 $a(EBL)1815447 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001350214 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12464390 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001350214 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11287608 035 $a(PQKB)10588998 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1815447 035 $a(OCoLC)1162869310 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09257903 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000260000 100 $a20140616d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJapanese questions $ediscourse, context and language /$fLidia Tanaka 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cBloomsbury Academic,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (263 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4742-8808-1 311 $a1-4725-7760-4 327 $aMachine generated contents note: List of Tables & Figures -- List of Abbreviations and Conventions -- List of Data Transcription Conventions -- Romanization of Japanese -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Japanese Questions and Interrogativity -- 3. Establishing Topics and Eliciting Talk: Questions in Television Interviews -- 4. Information Collection and Footing: Questions in Radio Phone-in Programs -- 5. Nourishing the Friendship: Questions in Friends' Talk -- 6. Categorizing, Introducing and Maintaining Topical Talk: Questions in Unacquainted Interactions -- 7. Questions in Japanese Discourse: Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Index. 330 $a"Questions and interrogatives in Japanese discourse have attracted considerable interest from grammarians, but the communicative aspect has received little attention. This book fills this gap. Through detailed analyses of formal and informal interactions, it demonstrates that the inherent multi-functional and polysemous aspect of language can also be observed in the use of questions. The book shows how questions are used to perform a wide range of social actions and how varied in form they are. Similarly, it demonstrates the importance of the context on the speakers' choice of question types, which, in turn, contribute to creating a particular stance that characterizes those interactions.The data used in the book shows that speakers prefer questions that are not canonical. When speakers do use canonical questions, they are overwhelmingly accompanied by some mollifiers. This phenomenon suggests that in Japanese communication the illocutionary force of canonical questions is too strong. To soften the interaction, speakers tend to use other types of interrogative forms such as statements with rising intonation, or at least, leave questions grammatically unfinished. The findings in this book contribute to the understanding of how Japanese speakers use questions in different communicative interactions and provide new evidence of the gap between prescriptive grammar and actual communication."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 606 $aJapanese language$xInterrogative 606 $aJapanese language$xDiscourse analysis 606 $aSociolinguistics 606 $2linguistics 615 0$aJapanese language$xInterrogative. 615 0$aJapanese language$xDiscourse analysis. 615 0$aSociolinguistics. 676 $a495.6/5 700 $aTanaka$b Lidia$0872130 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910511336503321 996 $aJapanese questions$92549775 997 $aUNINA