CiNii 図書 - Japanese questions : discourse, context and language

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.

List of Tables & Figures List of Abbreviations and Conventions List of Data Transcription Conventions Romanization of Japanese Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Japanese Questions and Interrogativity 3. Establishing Topics and Eliciting Talk: Questions in Television Interviews 4. Information Collection and Footing: Questions in Radio Phone-in Programs 5. Nourishing the Friendship: Questions in Friends' Talk 6. Categorizing, Introducing and Maintaining Topical Talk: Questions in Unacquainted Interactions 7. Questions in Japanese Discourse: Discussion and Conclusion References Index

「Nielsen BookData」より

Japanese questions : discourse, context and language

著者

書誌事項

大学図書館所蔵全21件

この図書・雑誌をさがす

注記

内容説明・目次

詳細情報

書き出し