Publications

Publication details [#64347]

Endo, Tomoko. 2018. The Japanese change-of-state tokens a and aa in responsive units. Journal of Pragmatics 123 : 151–166.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversation | information processing | knowledge | particle | response

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

The Japanese particles a and aa convey distinct epistemic stance types. A conveys wonder, or a state change from not-knowing to knowing. AA conveys comprehension, often based on previous knowledge. A and aa sometimes co-occur in one utterance in the order of a followed by aa.