Publications
Publication details [#14020]
Suzuki, Satoko. 1998. Tte and nante: Markers of psychological distance in Japanese conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 29 (4) : 429–462.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
It is argued that the Japanese colloquial expressions TTE and NANTE are used when the degree of incorporation of information is low. In other words, when the speaker feels psychologically distanced from the information.