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Discourse Particles in Asian Languages Volume I: East Asia book cover

1st Edition

Discourse Particles in Asian Languages Volume I East Asia

Edited By Elin McCready, Hiroki Nomoto Copyright 2024
206 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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. Within linguistics, there has been a great deal of interest in discourse particles, especially within semantics and pragmatics. The term ‘discourse particles’ has been used to cover a broad range of... Read more

Introduction

Elin McCready and Hiroki Nomoto

1 On the mirative use of the no (da) construction in Japanese

David Y. Oshima

2 Evidentiality, inference, conclusion: Japanese no as a particle and complementizer

Lukas Rieser

3 Mandarin Chinese sentence-final de as a marker of private evidence

Hooi Ling Soh

4 How are contrasts marked? – the case of ne in in Mandarin Chinese

Satomi Ito

5 Cantonese question particles

Yurie Hara

6  Softness, assertiveness and their expression via Cantonese sentence-final particles

Grégoire Winterstein, Regine Lai and Zoe Pei-sui Luk

7 Formality weakening and the underspecified expressive yo in Korean

Soo-Hwan Lee

Biography

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.

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