Fluid Orality in the Discourse of Japanese Popular Culture
Senko K. Maynard
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 263] 2016. xi, 344 pp.
Senko K. Maynard
List of John Benjamins publications for which Senko K. Maynard plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Linguistic Creativity in Japanese Discourse: Exploring the multiplicity of self, perspective, and voice
Senko K. Maynard
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 159] 2007. xvi, 356 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics
Linguistic Emotivity: Centrality of place, the topic-comment dynamic, and an ideology of pathos in Japanese discourse
Senko K. Maynard
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 97] 2002. xiv, 481 pp.
Subjects Altaic languages | Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics | Semantics
Discourse Modality: Subjectivity, Emotion and Voice in the Japanese Language
Senko K. Maynard
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 24] 1993. x, 315 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Japanese linguistics | Pragmatics
Perspectives on Topicalization: The case of Japanese wa
Edited by John Hinds, Shoichi Iwasaki and Senko K. Maynard
[Typological Studies in Language, 14] 1987. xi, 307 pp.
Subjects Japanese linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2008 Playing with multiple voices: Emotivity and creativity in Japanese style mixture Style Shifting in Japanese, Jones, Kimberly and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 91–130 | Chapter
2001 Falling in love with style: Expressive functions of stylistic shifts in a Japanese television drama series Functions of Language 8:1, pp. 1–39 | Article
This study analyzes the emotive meanings of three strategies - vocatives/reference forms, desu/masu versus da verb forms, and the use and non-use of the interactional particle yo -in a particular Mode of Japanese discourse. The research site is a television drama series, Majo no Jooken (Conditions… read more
1997 Meta-quotation: The thematic and interactional significance of tte in Japanese comics Functions of Language 4:1, pp. 23–46 | Article
This paper explores the thematic and interactional significance of the quotative marker tte in Japanese comics. The quotative expressions examined are 'meta-quotations', their main function being to self-qualify the quoter's speaking act. Although a similar use is observed in the standard quotation… read more
1995 Commentary Questions in Japanese: Cognitive Sources and Pragmatic Resources Studies in Language 19:2, pp. 447–487 | Article
This paper examines the nature of questioning in Japanese by concentrating on questions taking the so-called n(o) da construction, i.e., "commentary questions" or CQs. Going beyond the cognitive and pragmatic features associated with "commentary predicates" explored in my earlier study, I argue… read more
1994 The centrality of thematic relations in Japanese text Functions of Language 1:2, pp. 229–260 | Article
This paper examines three ways in which thematic relations are realized in Japanese text. Scholars in the past have focused on limited cases of thematization in Japanese — mostly realized by the thematic particle wa from the given-new information perspective. Following and advancing this tradition,… read more
1992 Speech Act Declaration in Conversation: Functions of the Japanese Connective Datte Studies in Language 16:1, pp. 63–89 | Article
1991 Pragmatics of discourse modality: A case of the Japanese emotional adverb doose Pragmatics 1:3, pp. 371–392 | Article
1987 Thematization as a staging device in the Japanese narrative Perspectives on Topicalization: The case of Japanese wa, Hinds, John, Shoichi Iwasaki and Senko K. Maynard (eds.), pp. 57 ff. | Article