Japanese Wa in conversational discourse
A Contrast Marker
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20382020 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Akiyo Maruyama (University of California System, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 245-285 |
| Publication date | 2003-10-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0378-4177 • E-ISSN: 1569-9978 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/sl.27.2.03mar |
| OpenAlex | W1998455191 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
This study provides evidence to support the claim that a primary function of the postpositional particle wa in Japanese conversational discourse is to mark a contrast. Wa has been widely studied in research on sentence grammar, which has suggested two separate functions of the particle, thematic and contrastive (Kuno 1973a; 1973b; Shibatani 1990). However, no study seems to have been done on conversation. In my study, analysis of 80 tokens of np -wa in conversation has revealed that wa marks a contrast. Furthermore, this study claims that it is the prior discourse that serves to establish the contrastive function of wa
Contrastive analysis · Conversation · Conversation analysis · Grammar · Linguistics · Sentence · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
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| Citations per year | 0.32 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |