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- Book Title
- Japanese Questions: Discourse, Context and Language
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-10
1474288081
ISBN-13
9781474288088
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219303647
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Japanese Questions: Discourse, Context and Language
Subject
Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Japanese, Linguistics / Pragmatics
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Foreign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
13.3 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
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Intended Audience
College Audience
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Japanese Questions presents an original, well-researched and fascinating exploration of discourse and social context. It provides fresh insights into the use of questions in Japanese through a wide range of examples and sophisticated analysis.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
495.6/5
Table Of Content
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
Synopsis
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, this book demonstrates that the inherent multi-functional and polysemous aspect of language can also be observed in the use of questions. What emerges is a sense of the considerable variety of question forms and also an understanding of how questions are used to perform a wide range of social actions.The importance of context is stressed throughout the book; both in guiding the speakers' choices of question types and in helping to create the particular stance that characterizes those interactions.The data used in this book shows that speakers prefer questions that are not canonical. When speakers do use canonical questions, these 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, to 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., 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, this book demonstrates that the inherent multi-functional and polysemous aspect of language can also be observed in the use of questions. What emerges is a sense of the considerable variety of question forms and also an understanding of how questions are used to perform a wide range of social actions. The importance of context is stressed throughout the book; both in guiding the speakers' choices of question types and in helping to create the particular stance that characterizes those interactions. The data used in this book shows that speakers prefer questions that are not canonical. When speakers do use canonical questions, these 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, to 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.
LC Classification Number
PL629.I57T35 2016
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