Reanalysis of Contrastive-Wa in Japanese: Perspectives from Newspaper Articles  

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Yamaguchi, Toshiko

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association vol. 13 no. 3 (2003), page 423-450.
Topik: Written discourse; Contrastive wa; Conscious experience; Speaker/writer; Contrastive Topic.
Fulltext: 398-689-1-PB.pdf (180.09KB)

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This paper examines the behavior of contrastive wa in Japanese written discourse. While supporting its local nature (Clancy and Downing 1987), the paper argues, based on a survey of newspapers, that localness alone is not sufficient to understand the nature of contrast. It proposes that the use of contrastive wa is motivated by how the writer perceives the world, or what Chafe (1994) calls conscious experience. We propose literal opposition, evaluation, association, and conflict as its main components. In the final part, the paper relates the results to the recent study on Contrastive Topic (Lee 1999, 2000, 2003), stating that the CT-approach is still unable to account for the entire range of phenomena discovered. The paper suggests that the discrepancies arise because of the fact that natural data integrates the writers context-specific intentions, to which priority is not given in formalistic approaches.

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