Speech Level Shift and Conversational Strategy in Japanese Discourse  

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Ikuta, Shoko

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 5 no. 1 (1983), page 37-53.
Fulltext: 05_01_Ikuta.pdf (726.65KB)

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This paper attempts to analyze the mecSanisms involved in speech level shift in Japanese conversational discourse that contains the des/-rnas 2 forms. The use of des/-mas is usually regarded as a matter of 'politeness' or 'formalness'. However, by focusing on Japanese ethnography and cohesion in discourse, this study reveals the basic meaning of des/-mas to be 'distance' which may be social, attitudinal, or cohesional. In face-to-face conversations, where frequent shifting is observed despite social condition remaining unchanged, level shift is often used (1) to signal the flow of empathy between speakers - the use of ]-Distant] level coincides with a speaker's attitudinal closeness to his interlocutor at any moment whereas [+Distant] represents his attitudinal distance - and/or (2) to indicate coherence and the hierarchical positioning of utterances in a discourse.

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