Discourse Particles in Asian Languages Volume I - East Asia

This is the first of two volumes of research on discourse particles focusing exclusively on the languages of Asia from the perspective of formal as well as non-formal semantics and pragmatics.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. On the mirative use of the no (da) construction in Japanese; 2. Evidentiality, inference, conclusion: Japanese no as a particle and complementizer; 3. Mandarin Chinese sentence-final de as a marker of private evidence; 4. How are contrasts marked? - the case of ne in in Mandarin Chinese; 5. Cantonese question particles; 6. Softness, assertiveness and their expression via Cantonese sentence-final particles; 7. Formality weakening and the underspecified expressive yo in Korean

About the author

Elin McCready is Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan.
Hiroki Nomoto is Associate Professor of Malay Language and Linguistics at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan.

Summary

This is the first of two volumes of research on discourse particles focusing exclusively on the languages of Asia from the perspective of formal as well as non-formal semantics and pragmatics.

Product details

• Authors: Elin (Aoyama Gakuin University Mccready
• Assisted by: Elin McCready (Editor), Hiroki Nomoto (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032448398
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3244839-8
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics, Language teaching and learning, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Semantics & pragmatics