Grammar and Interactional Discourse: Marking Non-topical Subject in Japanese Conversation

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dc.contributor.authorKaneyasu, Michiko
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-07T18:18:36Z
dc.date.available2017-12-07T18:18:36Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThis chapter aims to demonstrate the role of the postpositional particle ga in the collaborative organization of discourse topic in Japanese conversation. Discourse topic is not static; it is a dynamic notion that is interactionally achieved in dialogic communication under a “triadic interactional framework.” The interactional triangle involves three nodes representing the speaker, the interlocutor, and the object or event on which the conversational participants place attention. The jointly attended object or event serves as a local discourse topic and a common reference point for achieving alignment and intersubjectivity (e.g., sense of shared understanding, awareness, feeling, or perspective), which is one major goal of conversational interaction. In this study, I examine face-to-face and telephone conversations involving two human referents, and analyze the role of ga in guiding and maintaining the co-participants’ orientation to the common topic. I show that ga has the function of explicitly indicating the nontopicality of a ga-marked subject which participates in a sequence of actions expressed by upcoming predicate(s), and thereby contributes to the collaborative achievement of discourse topic. These findings shed light on the interplay between grammar and interaction.
dc.format.extent22 pages
dc.identifier.citationKaneyasu, Michiko. “Grammar and Interactional Discourse: Marking Non-Topical Subject in Japanese Conversation.” New Perspectives on Japanese Language Learning, Linguistics, and Culture, edited by Kimi Kondo-Brown et al., National Foreign Language Resource Center, 2013.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/50785
dc.language.isoen-US
dc.publisherNational Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
dc.subjectPragmatics
dc.titleGrammar and Interactional Discourse: Marking Non-topical Subject in Japanese Conversation
dc.typeBook Chapter
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