14.3128, Books: Discourse Analysis/Syntax, Japanese: Matsumoto

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Date:  Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:50:06 -0500 (EST)
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Intonation Units in Japanese Conversation: Matsumoto

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Date:  Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:50:06 -0500 (EST)
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Intonation Units in Japanese Conversation: Matsumoto

Title: Intonation Units in Japanese Conversation
Subtitle: Syntactic, informational and functional structures
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 65

Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: John Benjamins
	    http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl		

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS_65

Author: Kazuko Matsumoto, Aichi University of Education

Hardback: ISBN: 1588113647, Pages: xviii, 215 pp., Price: USD 95.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027230757, Pages: xviii, 215 pp., Price: EUR 95.00

Abstract:

This book explores how speakers of Japanese organize their messages
into coherent units as they jointly and interactively construct
conversational discourse. Specifically, it investigates the syntactic,
informational, and functional structures of intonation units (IUs) as
basic units of discourse production and information flow in spoken
communication. It addresses various research topics: clause vs. phrase
centrality, relationship between IUs and clauses, functions of
independent NPs, preferred argument/clause structure and transitivity,
interrelationship among functional components, and the role of new and
interactional information in the shaping of IU syntax. Overall, it
tries to elucidate not only the preferred IU structures that are
typical of the way Japanese speakers talk in connected discourse, but
also possible relationships between the structures and their
implications. Besides three main chapters discussing the results of
quantitative and qualitative analyses, it also includes an
introductory chapter comprehensively covering key issues in research
on information flow in spoken discourse in general. Thus the book will
be useful to all students and researchers of functional linguistics
and discourse analysis.

Table of contents

Preface  xi
Tables and Figures  xiii
Transcription conventions  xv
Abbreviations  xvii
1. Introduction  1
2. Information flow in spoken discourse  7
3. Method of the study  43
4. Syntactic structure of the intonation unit in conversational
   Japanese 51
5. Information structure of the intonation unit in conversational
   Japanese 101
6. Functional structure of the intonation unit in conversational
   Japanese 141
7. Conclusion 159
Notes 169
References 179
Index 191

Lingfield(s):   Discourse Analysis
		Syntax 			

Subject Language(s):  Japanese (Language code: JPN)

Written In:  English (Language Code: ENG)

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