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Yamaguchi, Toshiko. Reanalysis of contrastive -wa in Japanese: perspectives from newspaper articles. Pragmatics 13 (3) : 423–450.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contrastive focus | newspaper report | world view | written language

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

IPRA

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

Drawing on a survey of newspapers, this study argues that the use of contrastive -WA in Japanese written discourse is motivated by its local nature and by the writer's 'conscious experience'.