Discourse Particles in Asian Languages Volume II - Southeast Asia

This volume is the second in a two-part collection 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

1 Tagalog pala: An unsurprising case of mirativity 2 Discourse particles in Tagalog: The case of e 3 A Kimaragang status particle: accessible information 4 A syntactic universal in a contact language: The story of Singlish already 5On the discourse marker dah in Colloquial Malay (and sudah in Sabah Malay) 6 On the apparently non-additive use of Malay additive pun 7A unified analysis of (some) discourse particles in Thai 8 Interpersonal uses of the pragmatic particle /k¿¿¿/ in Thai conversation 9 A scalar semantics for the Vietnamese sentence-final particle c¿ 10 Syntax-information structure interface in Vietnamese

About the author

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

Summary

This volume is the second in a two-part collection 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: 9781032532615
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3253261-5
• No. of pages: 268
• 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