LINGUIST List 32.254
Tue Jan 19 2021
Books: Information structure in spoken Japanese: Nakagawa
Editor for this issue: Billy Dickson <billydlinguistlist.org>
Date: 16-Jan-2021
From: Sebastian Nordhoff <Sebastian.Nordhoff
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Subject: Information structure in spoken Japanese: Nakagawa
E-mail this message to a friend Title: Information structure in spoken Japanese
Subtitle: Particles, word order, and intonation
Series Title: Topics at the Grammar-Discourse Interface
Published: 2020
Publisher: Language Science Press
http://langsci-press.org
Book URL:
https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/178 Author: Natsuko Nakagawa
Electronic: ISBN: 9783961101382 Pages: 318 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access
Abstract:
This study explores information structure (IS) within the framework of corpus linguistics and functional linguistics. As a case study, it investigates IS phenomena in spoken Japanese: particles including so-called topic particles, case particles, and zero particles; word order; and intonation. The study discusses how these phenomena are related to cognitive and communicative mechanisms of humans.
Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
Semantics
Syntax
Subject Language(s):
Japanese (jpn) Written In: English (eng)
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