This essay tries to 1) outline a pragmatically anchored, universal matrix of morpho-syntax and semantics, 2) provide a general account of one of its components, i.e., reference entailment and maintenance mechanisms, and 3) focus on some of these mechanisms, such as "topic-markers" and "topicalizers" (defined below), by analyzing the structural and functional characteristics of several particles in Japanese, in terms of the interactions between markedness hierarchy, the semantic contents of NPs (explained below), case relations, interclausal linkages and reference-maintenance relations. Also the paper investigates relationships between forms in the linguistic structure of Japanese and the emotive and conative effects of their uses in discourse.
2000. How to be a singular scientist of words, worlds, and other (possibly) wonderful things: An obituary for James D. McCawley (1934–1999). Journal of Pragmatics 32:6 ► pp. 651 ff.
Koyama, Wataru
2001. Dialectics of dialect and dialectology: culture, structure and ideology of ‘the Kyôto dialect’ of Japanese. Journal of Pragmatics 33:10 ► pp. 1571 ff.
Koyama, Wataru
2001. How to do pragmatics with Japanese complementizers. Journal of Pragmatics 33:2 ► pp. 317 ff.
Koyama, Wataru
2004. Honorifics in critical-historic pragmatics: the linguistic ideologies of modernity, the national standard, and modern Japanese honorifics. Journal of Pragmatics 36:11 ► pp. 2023 ff.
Koyama, Wataru
2009. Indexically anchored onto the deictic center of discourse: Grammar, sociocultural interaction, and ‘emancipatory pragmatics’. Journal of Pragmatics 41:1 ► pp. 79 ff.
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