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Publication details [#48537]

Lee, Duck-Young and Yoko Yonezawa. 2008. The role of the overt expression of first and second person subject in Japanese. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (4) : 733–767.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | social relationship | subject

Language as a subject

Japanese | Korean

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper discusses the role of the overt use of first and second person subjects in Japanese, demonstrating that in addition to their function in discourse contexts, it constitutes a useful way to indicate the speaker's social relationship with the other participant.