Incipient decategrorization of MONO and grammaticalization of speaker attitude in Japanese discourse

Fujii, Seiko

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“…Indonesian (Wouk 1998), Japanese (Cook 1990(Cook , 1992Fuji 2000;Matsumoto 1988;Onodera 1994Onodera , 1995, Spanish (Koike 1996;Schwenter 1996), Latin (Kroon 1998), Korean (Park 1999), Andean Spanish (Zavala 2001), Bulgarian (Tchizmarova 2005), Hebrew (Ariel 1998, Maschler 1997Ziv 1998, Shemesh 2006, Maya and Nahuatl (Torres 2006), Niuean (Massam et al 2006), Yagua (Payne et al 1990), etc. (see Schiffrin 2003:54 where she notes many of these works also).…”

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2016

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“…as a verbal auxiliary in (6)-(10), a connective in (11)-(14), an utterance final particle in (15)). However, in taking a position similar to Fujii (2000), I will likewise maintain that it is the occurrence of mono within the context of a particular grammatical construction and discourse instance that causes it to be interpreted in association with a certain type of speaker modality. My analysis, moreover, will highlight the particular role played by mono within these constructions, notably in terms of the semantic contribution mono is making in each grammatical environment that involves it.…”

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“…highly subjective attitude that the proposition so marked--typically a reasoning or excuse--should be accepted "as is", and without further challenge; hence, it has been termed indicative of a "self-justification" (Fujii 2000). It is significant to note that in this particular usage, mon(o) is functioning as an independent pragmatic particle that has lost its grammatical status as a noun.…”

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“…Thus, the predicative noun mono in the non-referential mon(o)da construction is a morphologically manifested "cue" whose function it is to direct the hearer on how, or in what manner, its nominalized propositional contents are to be received. It is this proposition, made non-challengeable 12 through its nominalization, and embellished with the speaker's propositional attitude (Fujii 2000) in the form of In order to view this proof accurately, the Overprint Preview Option must be checked in Acrobat Professional or Adobe Reader. Please contact your Customer Service Representative if you have questions about finding the option.…”

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The Agent-Obfuscating Function of Mono 'Things' in Japanese Discourse

Yoshida¹

2008

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“…Onodera, this issue), modal markers (e.g. Narrog, this issue), series of auxiliary with the clause linker -te and with the copula da, and nouns gaining pragmatic functions (Fujii 2000;R. Suzuki 1998R.…”

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(Inter)subjectification in the quotative tte in Japanese conversation

Suzuki

2007

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Inter)subjectification in the quotative tte in Japanese conversationLocal change, utterance-ness and verb-ness Ryoko SuzukiKeio University This article discusses the process of (inter)subjectification in grammatical constructions including tte, which is known as the quotative complementizer in present-day Japanese. About 170 instances of tte constructions that appeared in the conversational data spanning over 200 years are analyzed, focusing on three major types of constructions: the quotative tte construction, the topic-introducing construction, and the constructions with tte as utterance-final pragmatic particles. There are morphosyntactic changes concomitant to the process of (inter)subjectification; for example, the quality of the "quoted" element preceding tte has been extended to include less utterancelike materials. In addition, the "main" verb iu 'say' that is associated with the quotative tte has lost its verbal characteristics in the topic construction and disappears in the utterance-final particle construction. Subjectification, as well as intersubjectification, is observed locally in each position: after the quoted element, after the topic noun, and at the utterance-final position.(Inter)subjectification in the quotative tte in Japanese conversation 209 DataThis study combines natural conversations and colloquial text data, primarily in the Tokyo dialect. The tokens of tte were taken from the conversational portions of novels stretching from the 1780s to the 1930s, as well as 23 transcripts of the tape-recorded conversations of present-day Japanese taped in the late 1980s to the 1990s. 2 I chose groups of novels published approximately 50 years apart: novels published around the 1780s, the 1830s, the 1880s, and the 1930s. Since no token of tte was found in the 1780s texts, my analysis began from the novels in the 1830s. A total number of 168 tokens were classified and coded by basic discourse functions, and analyzed in terms of morphosyntactic features and subjectification. The coded tokens include six tokens from the 1830s, 45 tokens from the 1880s, 57 tokens from the 1930s, and 60 tokens from present-day Japanese conversations. (The list of novels is provided in the references.) I decided to arbitrarily code no more than a dozen tokens from one novel or transcript, in order to lessen the effect of personal preference. In addition, the present-day Japanese instances appeared in the novels published in the 1980s and the ones reported in previous studies by other researchers were also included.

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Incipient decategrorization of MONO and grammaticalization of speaker attitude in Japanese discourse

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