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SHIBASAKI Reijirou
Department Undergraduate School , School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences Position Professor |
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| Language | English |
| Publication Date | 2021/11 |
| Type | Academic Journal |
| Peer Review | Peer reviewed |
| Title | "Discourse markers in the making: Pragmatic differentiation of jijitsujoo from jijitsu in Modern through Present Day Japanese"(East Asian Pragmatics) |
| Contribution Type | Sole-authored |
| Journal | East Asian Pragmatics (Equinox) |
| Journal Type | Another Country |
| Publisher | Equinox |
| Volume, Issue, Page | 6(3),pp.303-329 |
| Authorship | Lead author,Last author,Corresponding author |
| International coauthorship | International coauthorship |
| Author and coauthor | Rhee, Seongha, Xinren Chen & Reijirou Shibasaki (eds.). 2021.Grammaticalization of discourse markers in East Asian languages. Special issue of East Asian Pragmatics 6 (3). |
| Details | Abstract
This study examines the discourse-pragmatic functions of the discourse marker (DM, hereafter) jijitsujoo (事実上 or 事實上) ‘as a matter of practice, practically speaking’ in comparison with another DM jijitsu (事実 or 事實) ‘in fact, the fact is’ in the history of Japanese. The gist of the survey results is that while jijitsu serves to introduce telling evidence for the preceding statement, jijitsujoo reformulates the preceding statement with what the speaker regards to be relevant, while disregarding irrelevant information. In other words, jijitsujoo plays a more subjective role as a DM than jijitsu in that the former can provide the speaker’s own stance toward an immediate topic. These DM functions can be fully fulfilled in sentence-initial position, presumably because they are connective in essence. |
| URL for researchmap | https://doi.org/10.1558/eap.20921 |