16.2928, Books: Discourse Analysis/Pragmatics, Japanese: Morita

Tue Oct 11 00:44:12 UTC 2005

LINGUIST List: Vol-16-2928. Mon Oct 10 2005. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 16.2928, Books: Discourse Analysis/Pragmatics, Japanese: Morita

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Wayne State U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>

Reviews (reviews at linguistlist.org) 
        Sheila Dooley, U of Arizona  
        Terry Langendoen, U of Arizona  

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org/

The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, Wayne
State University, and donations from subscribers and publishers.

Editor for this issue: Megan Zdrojkowski <megan at linguistlist.org>
================================================================  

Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers
are available at the end of this issue. 

===========================Directory==============================  

1)
Date: 05-Oct-2005
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Negotiation of Contingent Talk: Morita 

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:41:27
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Negotiation of Contingent Talk: Morita 

Title: Negotiation of Contingent Talk 
Subtitle: The Japanese interactional particles ne and sa 
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 137  

Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=P%26bns%20137 

Author: Emi Morita, UCLA

Hardback: ISBN: 9027253803 Pages: xvi, 240 Price: Europe EURO 115.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027253803 Pages: xvi, 240 Price: U.S. $ 138.00

Abstract:

Observing naturally occurring talk-in-interaction in Japanese, this book
examines how Japanese speakers segment their talk into relevant
interactional units and use particles such as ne and sa to accomplish local
pragmatic work. The study provides a conversation analytic, action-oriented
account for the ubiquity of such particles in Japanese talk.
The study argues that such particles are important resources for Japanese
speakers to negotiate and fine-tune particular conversational contingencies
within the emerging sequential environment of the talk. Various examples
show that prospective alignment and the negotiability of conversational
next action are ever-present issues for Japanese conversationalists and are
handled at the precise moment of their relevance through interlocutors'
deployment of ne and sa. This study thus adds to the literature on Japanese
conversational interaction a novel understanding of particle use in its
synthesis of functional linguistics and conversation analysis. 

Table of contents

Acknowledgments  xi-xii  
Transcript conventions  xiii-xiv  
Abbreviations used in the interlinear gloss  xv  
1. Introduction  1-24  
2. Review of previous research: Aspects of Japanese Particles  25-48  
3. Interactionally-relevant units  49-93  
4. Interactional particle Ne  95-151  
5. Interactional particle Sa  153-209  
6. Concluding remarks  211-222  
References  223-236  
Index  237-240  

"Morita provides a most original analysis of how the Japanese particles ne
and sa are used to explicitly mark the way in which the context of an
utterance is attended to and constructed. Using actual conversations as
data, she demonstrates how precise placement of these particles enables
speakers to formulate the status of what is being said, their stance toward
it, and to negotiate such issues with hearers in the midst of emerging
utterances. This is a most original and important contribution to the
analysis of how Japanese grammar and the organization of
talk-in-interaction mutually shape each other." 
Charles Goodwin, UCLA 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): Japanese (jpn)

Written In: English  (eng)

See this book announcement on our website: 
http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=16768

MAJOR SUPPORTERS

	Blackwell Publishing          
		http://www.blackwellpublishing.com	

	Cambridge University Press          
		http://us.cambridge.org	

	Cascadilla Press          
		http://www.cascadilla.com/	

	Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd          
		http://www.continuumbooks.com	

	Edinburgh University Press          
		http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/	

	Elsevier Ltd.          
		http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics	

	Equinox Publishing Ltd.          
		http://www.equinoxpub.com/	

	Georgetown University Press          
		http://www.press.georgetown.edu	

	Hodder Arnold          
		http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk	

	John Benjamins          
		http://www.benjamins.com/	

	Lawrence Erlbaum Associates          
		http://www.erlbaum.com/	

	Lincom GmbH          
		http://www.lincom.at	

	MIT Press          
		http://mitpress.mit.edu/	

	Mouton de Gruyter          
		http://www.mouton-publishers.com	

	Oxford University Press          
		http://www.oup.com/us	

	Rodopi          
		http://www.rodopi.nl/	

	Routledge (Taylor and Francis)          
		http://www.routledge.com/	

	Springer          
		http://www.springeronline.com	

OTHER SUPPORTING PUBLISHERS	

	Anthropological Linguistics
		http://www.indiana.edu/~anthling/ 

	CSLI Publications
		http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/ 

	Graduate Linguistic Students' Assoc., Umass
		http://glsa.hypermart.net/ 

	International Pragmatics Assoc.
		http://ipra-www.uia.ac.be/ipra/ 

	Kingston Press Ltd
		http://www.kingstonpress.com/ 

	MIT Working Papers in Linguistics
		http://web.mit.edu/mitwpl/ 

	Multilingual Matters
		http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ 

	Pacific Linguistics
		http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ 

	Palgrave Macmillan
		http://www.palgrave.com 

	SIL International
		http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp 

	St. Jerome Publishing Ltd.
		http://www.stjerome.co.uk 

	Utrecht Institute of Linguistics / LOT Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistic
		http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ 

-----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-16-2928	