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Japanese discourse markers: Synchronic and diachronic discourse analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2007

Ryoko Suzuki
Ryoko Suzuki
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Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, ryoko@hc.cc.keio.ac.jp
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Noriko O. Onodera, Japanese discourse markers: Synchronic and diachronic discourse analysis. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004. Pp. xiv, 253. Hb $132.00.

Onodera's work is one of the first historical-pragmatic studies of Japanese, which is typologically dissimilar to Indo-European languages. After providing background information (Ch. 1 and 2), Onodera (hereafter O) presents her latest thoughts on the evolution of Japanese discourse markers (DMs), dealing with two types coming from different sources: demo type connectives (so-called adversative conjunctions), originally from clause-final connecting devices (Ch. 3 and 4), and na elements (often called sentence-final particles (SFPs)/interjections of agreement), originally from SFPs (Ch. 5 and 6), followed by the conclusion.

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Language in Society , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , April 2007 , pp. 299 - 303
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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