Interactional frames and grammatical descriptions

The case of Japanese noun-modifying constructions

Yoshiko Matsumoto

Examining usage variations in a Japanese construction, the paper argues that knowledge represented in “interactional frames” (e.g. Fillmore 1982) is an important and integral part of our understanding of the construction. The discussion focuses on variations in noun-modifying constructions (NMCs) that are considered to be non-prototypical in conversational Japanese and demonstrates that social context and the purpose of the on-going discourse are crucially involved in the actual usage of NMCs. The paper suggests the theoretical importance of including pragmatic and sociocultural perspectives in the grammatical description.

Keywords: Japanese, interactional frame, pragmatics, noun-modifying construction, sociocultural factors, discourse, variations

Published online: 03 January 2011
https://doi.org/10.1075/cf.2.2.01mat

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