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Release Year
2024
ISBN
9781009421829

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
1009421824
ISBN-13
9781009421829
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16065334862

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
301 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Salience of Information in Japanese : Discourse and the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface
Subject
General, Linguistics / General
Publication Year
2024
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines
Author
Mitsuaki Shimojo
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.8 in
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN
2023-048870
Reviews
'Shimojo's book breaks new ground in the investigation of information structure in Japanese. It explores important issues in the syntax-pragmatics interface using discourse data collected from L1 and L2 Japanese speakers and applying the approaches of Role and Reference Grammar and Centering Theory. The result is a revealing and insightful account of the role of salience in the analysis of the interaction of syntax and discourse in Japanese.' Robert D. Van Valin, Jr, University at Buffalo (SUNY) and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dewey Edition
23/eng/20240207
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
495.6501/834
Table Of Content
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.
Synopsis
'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., 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.
LC Classification Number
PL640.5.S57 2024

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