Salience of Information in Japanese
Discourse and the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
Av Mitsuaki Shimojo, Buffalo) Shimojo, Mitsuaki (State University of New York
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Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.'Salience' is a linguistic phenomenon whereby information that is 'given', or 'new', is distributed and presented within a sentence in particular ways that convey its relevance. Although it has been widely described as the speaker's linguistic choices based on the hearer's perspective, it has received less attention as the speaker's manipulations of the hearer's cognitive states. This timely study redresses that balance by analysing several morphosyntactic phenomena in Japanese, drawing on a wide range of authentic language examples. Taking a functionalist perspective, it brings together studies of grammar and discourse, which are often described separately, and deploys the combined grammar-discourse approach in Role and Reference Grammar, the structural-functionalist theory in which syntax, semantics, and pragmatics are equally central to our understanding of language. It also offers an analysis of second language (L2) learners' Japanese discourse, and demonstrates the relevance of that analysis to issues outside of traditional second language research.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2024-04-04
- Mått159 x 235 x 21 mm
- Vikt550 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor282
- FörlagCambridge University Press
- ISBN9781009421829
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