Publications

Publication details [#45703]

Lee, Duck-Young. 2007. Involvement and the Japanese interactive particles ne and yo. Journal of Pragmatics 39 (2) : 363–388.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

attitude | conversational exchange | involvement | request | speaker's position

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper argues that the interactive Japanese ne and yo particles signall the speaker's attitude in order to invoke the conversational partner's involvement. It also discusses other relevant phenomena, including the particles' effect in request expressions.