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Intonation Units in Japanese Conversation: Syntactic, Informational, and Functional Structures Book

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Intonation Units in Japanese Conversation: Syntactic, Informational, and Functional Structures, 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 intonati, Intonation Units in Japanese Conversation: Syntactic, Informational, and Functional Structures
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  • Intonation Units in Japanese Conversation: Syntactic, Informational, and Functional Structures
  • Written by author Kazuko Matsumoto
  • Published by John Benjamins Pub Co, 2003/11/01
  • 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 intonati
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Preface
Tables and Figures
Transcription conventions
Abbreviations
Ch. 1 Introduction 1
1.1 Information flow 1
1.2 Intonation units 1
1.3 Word order in Japanese spoken discourse 3
1.4 Purpose of the study 5
1.5 General research questions 5
1.6 Organization of the book 5
Ch. 2 Information flow in spoken discourse 7
2.1 Topicality 7
2.2 Grounding 10
2.3 Information status 12
2.4 Units of information flow 19
2.5 Japanese intonation units 28
2.6 Constraints on information flow 38
Ch. 3 Method of the study 43
3.1 Research questions and hypotheses 43
3.2 Data base 44
3.3 Data transcription 46
3.4 Intonation units produced in 16 conversations 47
3.5 Analysis of intonation units 48
Ch. 4 Syntactic structure of the intonation unit in conversational Japanese 51
4.1 Data coding 51
4.2 Distribution of IU syntactic structure types 57
4.3 Distribution of post-predicate phrases among IU syntactic types 63
4.4 Clausal intonation units: Full clauses vs. semi-clauses 66
4.5 NP intonation units 68
4.6 Adjectival, adverbial, and mixed phrasal intonation units 89
4.7 Intonation units and clauses: Single-IU clauses vs. multi-IU clauses 94
4.8 Summary 98
Ch. 5 Information structure of the intonation unit in conversational Japanese 101
5.1 Data coding 101
5.2 NPs, intonation units, and clauses 105
5.3 Preferred NP types: Grammatical roles, information statuses, and syntactic forms 109
5.4 Preferred information structure of the Japanese intonation unit 118
5.5 Preferred clause structure in conversational Japanese 124
5.6 Multi-IU clauses and the one new NP per IU constraint 134
5.7 Summary 139
Ch. 6 Functional structure of the intonation unit in conversational Japanese 141
6.1 Data coding 141
6.2 Distribution of IU functional structure types 144
6.3 Preferred functional structure of the Japanese intonation unit 146
6.4 Multi-IU clauses and multifunctionality 155
6.5 Summary 158
Ch. 7 Conclusion 159
7.1 Japanese intonation units: Syntactic, informational, and functional structures 159
7.2 Prospects 164
Notes 169
References 179
Index 191


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