Japanese Sentence-Final Particles: A Pragmatic Principle Approach

This study shows that SFPs are something that the speaker uses to represent himself as having a certain attitude (i.e., certain beliefs and intentions), and their uses contribute to the inference process: The speaker uses a SFP to achieve his goal, and assumes that the addressee also believes that the speaker has a goal and believes that whatever the speaker does (including the speaker's choice of a SFP) is relevant for the speaker's goal. Given an utterance with a SFP, the addressee, who assumes that whatever act the speaker performs is relevant to the speaker's goal, infers that the speaker intends to convey something by the fact that the speaker uses a particular SFP in a given situation.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Linguistics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Kose, Yuriko Suzuki

Contributors dc:contributor

• Green, Georgia M.

• Language, Linguistics

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9812658

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/82669