Japanese Questions: Discourse, Context and Language

· Bloomsbury Publishing
E-kitob
264
Sahifalar soni
Reytinglar va sharhlar tasdiqlanmagan  Batafsil

Bu e-kitob haqida

Questions and interrogatives in Japanese discourse have attracted considerable interest from grammarians, but the communicative aspect has received little attention. This book fills this gap. Through detailed analyses of formal and informal interactions, this book demonstrates that the inherent multi-functional and polysemous aspect of language can also be observed in the use of questions. What emerges is a sense of the considerable variety of question forms and also an understanding of how questions are used to perform a wide range of social actions.
The importance of context is stressed throughout the book; both in guiding the speakers' choices of question types and in helping to create the particular stance that characterizes those interactions.

The data used in this book shows that speakers prefer questions that are not canonical. When speakers do use canonical questions, these are overwhelmingly accompanied by some mollifiers. This phenomenon suggests that in Japanese communication the illocutionary force of canonical questions is too strong. To soften the interaction, speakers tend to use other types of interrogative forms such as statements with rising intonation or, at least, to leave questions grammatically unfinished.

The findings in this book contribute to the understanding of how Japanese speakers use questions in different communicative interactions and provide new evidence of the gap between prescriptive grammar and actual communication.

Muallif haqida

Lidia Tanaka is Senior Lecturer and Japanese Program Co-ordinator in the Japanese Program, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Australia

Bu e-kitobni baholang

Fikringizni bildiring.

Qayerda o‘qiladi

Smartfonlar va planshetlar
Android va iPad/iPhone uchun mo‘ljallangan Google Play Kitoblar ilovasini o‘rnating. U hisobingiz bilan avtomatik tazrda sinxronlanadi va hatto oflayn rejimda ham kitob o‘qish imkonini beradi.
Noutbuklar va kompyuterlar
Google Play orqali sotib olingan audiokitoblarni brauzer yordamida tinglash mumkin.
Kitob o‘qish uchun mo‘ljallangan qurilmalar
Kitoblarni Kobo e-riderlar kabi e-siyoh qurilmalarida oʻqish uchun faylni yuklab olish va qurilmaga koʻchirish kerak. Fayllarni e-riderlarga koʻchirish haqida batafsil axborotni Yordam markazidan olishingiz mumkin.