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Publication details [#35227]

Maynard, Senko K. 1989. Functions of the Japanese discourse marker Dakara in Japanese conversation. Text 9 (4) : 389–414.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conjunction1 | conversation | discourse marker | function

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0165-4888

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This paper argues that the Japanese conjunction 'dakara' has additional discourse functions -besides the logical connector of 'cause-and-result'- in casual interaction, as dakara functions on both the textual semantic and the interactional move level.