Japanese mood and modality in systemic functional linguistics : theory and application / edited by Ken-Ichi Kadooka.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kadooka, Kenichi, 1959- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Modality.

English language.

Japanese language--Modality.

Japanese language.

English language--Grammar, Comparative--Japanese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]

Summary:

"The main purpose of the book is to contrast the modality systems of English and Japanese, using Systemic Functional Grammar. The definition of modality is the region of uncertainty that lies between the polarity of 'yes' and 'no'. Our motivation is that this publication would be valuable from both perspectives of the modality studies in English and Japanese, and the Systemic viewpoint of the Interpersonal metafunction. Our methodology can be contrasted with Japanese linguists such as Takashi Masuoka, Harumi Sawada and Yoshio Nitta, who define modality as the speaker's subjective attitude which is located peripheral around the 'core' proposition, roughly speaking"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Ken-Ichi Kadooka

The system of modulation in Japanese / Ryuichi Iimura

Grammatical metaphor of transitivity, mood and modality in Japanese : a functional perspective / Kazuo Fukuda

A contrastive study of the English and the Japanese modality systems / Ken-Ichi Kadooka

The cognitive and linguistic reasoning process of the speaker's choice of modal expressions from the system network : modality from the perspective of pragmatic impairment / Sumi Kato.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.