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Publication details [#13860]

Kataoka, Kuniyoshi. 1995. Affect in Japanese women's letter writing: Use of sentence-final particles ne and yo and ortographic conventions. Pragmatics 5 (4) : 427–453.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
ISBN
1018-2101
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag

Annotation

Young Japanese females effectively exploit particular vernacular writing systems, to encode special intention. Some scripts use affect-laden SFPs, which implicitly relies on Labovian notion of 'evaluation' and Gumperz's 'contextualization cues'. More interestingly, some affect-laden symbols also co-occur with such evaluation devices, building on the affect enhanced by such SFPs and script-switching in order to establish intimate and solidary relationships.