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Publication details [#52731]

Hirotoshi, Yagihashi. 2009. Why Can a Japanese Unagi-Sentence Be Used in a Request ? Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 5 (2) : 227–240.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognitive linguistics | cognitive pragmatics | request | sentence

Language as a subject

English | Japanese

Place, Publisher

Versita

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LPP/html

Annotation

This study explains why the so-called typically Japanese Unagi-sentence can be widely employed in the request context within a cognitive linguistics and pragmatics framework. .