基本説明
This book is the first collection of studies on Japanese modality written in English. It presents a review of Japanese modality studies as well as important new material that addresses the issues of its scope, its nature, and its conceptualization. The book offers specialists of Japanese a valuable tool to explore the broad range of perspectives adopted in a long tradition of scholarly inquiry on the subject, such as syntax, semantics, pragmatics, SLA, interaction analysis, in synchronic and diachronic, and comparative approaches.
Full Description
This book explores the nature and scope of modality in Japanese. It contains a review of the history of Japanese modality studies, as well as theoretical and empirical research and is the first collection of studies on Japanese modality written in English and offers a stimulating contrast to existing studies on Western languages.
Contents
Notes on Contributors Preface Introduction; B.Pizziconi & M.Kizu PART I: CONTEXTUALIZING AND DEFINING JAPANESE MODALITY Modality, Modaritii and Predication - The Story of Modality in Japan; H.Narrog Modality from a Japanese Perspective; T.Masuoka West Meets East: A Kindaichian Approach to Subjective Modality; L.Larm What Is and Is Not Language-Specific About the Japanese Modal System? - A Comparative and Historical Perspective; T.Moriya & K.Horie PART II: JAPANESE MODALITY FROM SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC PERSPECTIVE Tense and Settledness in Japanese Conditionals; S.Arita Conditional Modality: Two Types of Modal Auxiliaries in Japanese; Y.Takubo Japanese Modals and the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface; M.Kizu PART III: JAPANESE MODALITY IN DISCOURSE On Noun Phrases as Minor Sentences in Japanese; T.Shin'ya The Acquisition of Japanese Modality During the Study Abroad; S.Watanabe & N.Iwasaki The Interactional Consequences of Epistemic Indexicality - Some Thoughts on the Epistemic Marker -Kamoshirenai; B.Pizziconi Index
