Publications
Publication details [#23342]
Cook, Haruko Minegishi. 1987. Social meanings of the Japanese sentence-final particle 'no'. Papers in Pragmatics 1 (2) : 123–168. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Journal DOI
10.1075/iprapip
Annotation
It is intended to capture a general meaning of the particle 'no', pertinent to all contexts in which it is used. It is suggested that the particle indexes the speaker's epistemological disposition: s/he and his/her group jointly hold an utterance to be true.