Salience of Information in Japanese - Discourse and the Syntaxpragmatics Interface

"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"--

List of contents

Preface; List of abbreviations; Notes on transcriptions; 1. Introduction; 2. Background; 3. Backward-looking salience and argument forms: discourse analysis; 4. Backward-looking salience and argument forms: RRG representations; 5. Predicate-less constructions; 6. Forward-looking non-salience and arguement forms; 7. Concluding remarks.

About the author

Mitsuaki Shimojo is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. His notable publications include Argument Encoding in Japanese Conversation (2005).

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.

Foreword

Provides analyses of Japanese discourse and applications of Role and Reference Grammar theory to the syntax-semantics-pragmatics interface.

Product details

• Authors: Mitsuaki Shimojo, Mitsuaki (State University of New York Shimojo, Shimojo Mitsuaki
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2024
• EAN: 9781009421829
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0942182-9
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Japanese, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Psycholinguistics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc