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Publication details [#27964]

Maynard, Senko K. 1994. The centrality of thematic relations in Japanese text. Functions of Language 1 (2) : 229–260.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

text analysis | thematization

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0929-998X

Journal DOI

10.1075/fol

Annotation

This paper which explores three types of thematic relations in Japanese texts, involving staging, expressive and poetic effects, suggests that Japanese is theme-centered in contrast to the Indo-European subject-predicate-prominent nature.