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Publication details [#60286]

Kushida, Shuya. 2015. Using Names for Referring without Claiming Shared Knowledge: Name-Quoting Descriptors in Japanese. Research on Language and Social Interaction 48 (2) : 230–251.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

epistemic logic | naming1 | quote | reference | social interaction

Language as a subject

English | Japanese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This paper discusses how, in Japanese, the name-quoting descriptor is employed for asserting the referent’s “epistemic distance,” i.e., for arguing that the referent is not within the shared speaker- recipient knowledge domain, and thence performs various addition interactional tasks.