Publications

Publication details [#14311]

Obana, Yasuko. 2001. Unagi-sentences in Japanese and mutual knowledge. Journal of Pragmatics 33 (5) : 725–751.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

focus | mutual knowledge | noun phrase utterance | presupposition

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Contrary to previous research, this article analyzes the Unagi-sentence as an expandable NP utterance. Its occurrence correlates with presupposed context and its pragmatic features, which are vital. The present article focuses on these features.