Publications

Publication details [#39127]

Hayashi, Makoto. 2004. Discourse within a sentence: An exploration of postpositions in Japanese as an interactional resource. Language in Society 33 (3) : 343–376.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational analysis | discourse | particle | sentence

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study examines a phenomenon in Japanese conversation that might be considered as “discourse-within-a-sentence,” by explicating Japanese speakers's use of postpositional particles to incorporate a parenthetical sequence element into the syntax of a sentence-in-progress.