Publications

Publication details [#42555]

Maynard, Senko K. 2005. Another conversation: expressivity of Mitaina and inserted speech in Japanese discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (6) : 837–869.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversation | emotion | genre | self-expression

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper argues that inserted speech in contemporary Japanese discourse, foregrounds emotivity, and communicates speaker/writer identity.