Salience of information in Japanese : discourse and the syntax-pragmatics interface / Mitsuaki Shimojo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shimojō, Mitsuaki, 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese language--Discourse analysis.

Japanese language.

Japanese language--Syntax.

Role and reference grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 263 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Featuring a wide range of authentic language examples, this book uses the framework of Role and Reference Grammar to explore how 'salience' is conveyed in Japanese. It is essential reading for researchers and students of syntax and its interfaces with pragmatics and discourse, as well as linguists of Asian languages"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Imprints page

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Notes on Transcriptions

1 Introduction

2 Background

2.1 Discourse Salience

2.2 Role and Reference Grammar as a Parallel-Architecture Theory

2.3 The Pragmatic Component of RRG

2.4 L2 Analysis

3 Backward-Looking Salience and Argument Forms: Discourse Analysis

3.1 Scope

3.2 Background

3.3 Analytical Framework

3.4 Discourse Data

3.5 Discourse Observations

3.6 Summary

4 Backward-Looking Salience and Argument Forms: RRG Representations

4.1 Scope

4.2 Focus Structure

4.3 Focus Structure and Salience Hierarchy

4.4 Linking from Semantics to Syntax

4.5 Input from Syntax to Pragmatics

4.6 Linking from Syntax to Semantics

4.7 Linked Cores and Linking Zeros

4.8 Summary

5 Predicate-Less Constructions

5.1 Scope

5.2 Background

5.3 Verbless Numeral Classifier Construction

5.4 Predicate-Less Construction

5.5 Summary

6 Forward-Looking Non-salience and Argument Forms

6.1 Scope

6.2 Background

6.3 Discourse Data and Analytical Framework

6.4 Discourse Observations

6.5 RRG Representations

6.6 Summary

7 Concluding Remarks

7.1 The Bidimensional Model of Salience

7.2 Applications of RRG

7.3 L2 Usage

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Mar 2024).

ISBN:

9781009421812

1009421816

9781009421843

1009421840

9781009421805

1009421808