Author: Noriko O. Onodera, Aoyama Gakuin University
Hardback: ISBN: 1588116077 Pages: xiv, 253 pp. Price: U.S. $ 132.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027253757 Pages: xiv, 253 pp. Price: Europe EURO 110.00
Abstract:
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.
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Transcription conventions
1. Introduction 1-29
2. Perspectives on Pragmatics of Japanese Discourse Markers: Synchronic and
diachronic discourse analysis 31-56
3. Functions of the Conjunctions demo and dakedo in Present Day Japanese
(synchronic analysis) 57-84
4. Pragmaticalization of demo and dakedo (diachronic analysis) 85-121
5. Functions of Interjections ne and na in Present Day Japanese (synchronic
analysis) 123-155
6. Pragmaticalization of ne and na (diachronic analysis) 157-195
7. Conclusion 197-218
Notes 219-226
References 227-240
Name Index 241-243
Subject Index 245-251
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
Historical Linguistics
Pragmatics
Typology
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