The Japanese sentence-final particles in talk-in-interaction / Hideki Saigo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saigo, Hideki.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., v. 205.

Pragmatics & beyond new series ; v. 205

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Relevance.

Pragmatics.

Semantics.

Conversation analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Japanese sentence-final particles, ne, yo and yone have proved notoriously difficult to explain and are especially challenging for second language users. This book investigates the role of the particles in talk-in-interaction with the aim of providing a comprehensive understanding that accounts for their pragmatic properties and sequential functions and that provides a sound basis for second language pedagogy. This study starts by setting up an original particle function hypothesis based on the figure/ground gestalt, and then tests its validity empirically with unmarked, marked and native/non-native talk-in-interaction data. The analysis illustrates not only expectable but also unexpected or strategic use of particles, as well as the problems posed for native speakers by non-native speakers whose use of particles is idiosyncratic. The study demonstrates that the proposed hypothesis is capable of accounting for all the uses of particles in the extensive and varied data set examined. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in pragmatics and CA and to teachers of Japanese as a foreign language.

Contents:

The Japanese Sentence-Final Particles in Talk-in-Interaction

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Transcript conventions

1. Introduction

1.1 Foreword

1.2 What is to be examined in the present study

1.3 Why the sentence-final particles are chosen for investigation

1.4 How the sentence-final particles are described in TJFL materials

1.5 What the present study aims to achieve

1.6 The significance of the present study

1.7 The structure of the present study

2. Sentence-final interactional particles in Japanese

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Literature review

2.3 A particle function hypothesis

2.4 Comparison of the use of the particles

2.5 Summary

3. Methodology

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Rationalistic and empirical pragmatics

3.3 Methodology

3.4 Data collection

3.5 Data analysis

4. The particles in an unmarked talk-in-interaction type

4.1 Introduction

4.2 The particles in everyday talk types

4.3 Summary

5. The particles in a marked talk-in-interaction type

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The particles in a marked talk type

5.3 Summary

6. The particles in native/non-native talk-in-interaction

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Native and non-native talk-in-interaction

6.3 Summary

7. Conclusions and implications

7.1 Introduction

7.2 The characteristic features of the present study

7.3 The findings of the present study in relation to broader issues

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

References

Index

Pragmatics &amp

Beyond New Series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613051448

9781283051446

1283051443

9789027287076

9027287074

OCLC:

712114322