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Title:
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Japanese and Polish Contrastive Discourse Analysis: From the perspective of interpersonal shifters
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Author:
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Miroslawa Kaczmarek
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Email:
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Degree Awarded:
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Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
, Graduate School of Area and Culture Studies
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Degree Date:
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2008
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Discourse Analysis
Pragmatics
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Subject Language(s):
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Japanese
Polish
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Director(s):
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Nobuo Tomimori
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Abstract:
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This dissertation analyzes the use of interpersonal shifters in naturally
occurring conversations.
Interpersonal shifters are defined as the final speech level forms in
Japanese and correspond to such linguistic items as the -desu, -masu
endings as well as the -da endings. In Polish on the other hand they are
associated with the first and the second person verb morphemes. It is
claimed that in both Japanese and Polish, interpersonal shifters play
similar discourse functions, i.e. they regulate the socio-psychological
distance between interlocutors.
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