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Publication details [#39917]

Yamaguchi, Toshiko. 2004. Contrastive wa in Japanese: the author's dialogical voices and pragmatic acts. Language Sciences 26 (5) : 467–483.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contrastiveness | dialogue | intended meaning vs. interpreted meaning | pragmatics

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper argues that contrastive wa in Japanese manifests itself as the expression of the author's multivoicedness and that the dialogicality of contrast co-exists with pragmatic acts by which author and reader collaborate in a given context to come at agreement on the intended meanings.