Japanese Discourse Particles in Use

dc.contributor.advisorIdemaru, Kaorien_US
dc.contributor.authorPuckett, Emmaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-17T16:14:31Z
dc.date.available2014-10-17T16:14:31Z
dc.date.issued2014-10-17
dc.description.abstractOne of the distinctive features of Japanese is the presence of discourse particles. The only way to truly resolve what these particles mean and how they are used is to examine them in use and to study the entire system of many particles. In order to add to the attempt to do this by providing more data for the study of particles, this exploratory study examines a large corpus of naturally occurring telephone conversations in the online CallFriend Japanese corpus and conversations taken from the Japanese TV drama "HERO." This analysis of both naturally occurring and scripted data will lead to further understanding both of actual patterns of particle use by real speakers and the language ideology that informs the usage of language created for a specific purpose. The results suggest that using this method of analysis shows a great deal not only about how particles are used in discourse strategies and in showing a speaker's affective commitment to the conversation but about the semantics involved in their use.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/18519
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.en_US
dc.subjectCorpus studiesen_US
dc.subjectDiscourse particlesen_US
dc.subjectJapaneseen_US
dc.subjectParticlesen_US
dc.subjectSentence-final particlesen_US
dc.subjectTelevision dramaen_US
dc.titleJapanese Discourse Particles in Useen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of East Asian Languages and Literaturesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregonen_US
thesis.degree.levelmastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameM.A.en_US

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