Publications

Publication details [#4733]

Hinds, John V. 1983. Topic continuity in Japanese. In Givón, Talmy, ed. Topic continuity in discourse: A quantitative cross-language study. John Benjamins. pp. 43–93.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational organization | thematic continuity

Language as a subject

Japanese

Annotation

An investigation of the ways in which referential items in general, and topics in particular, are continued or discontinued in Japanese conversational interaction, based on a quantitative method developed by T. Givon.