The Demonstratives in Modern Japanese Page 1 The demonstratives in modern Japanese*
Hajime Hoji (University of Southern California) Satoshi Kinsui (Osaka University) Yukinori …

The issue of how interpretation results from the form and type of syntactic structures present
in language is one which is central and hotly debated in both theoretical and descriptive …

This study explores the use of Korean and Japanese demonstratives in casual speech,
focusing on their interactional functions. Based on Strauss's (2002) concept of focus, which …

Examining experimentally-obtained soliloquial data, this paper investigates the controversy
over Japanese demonstratives. The prevailing analysis is ko-is used only deictically, but so …

The aim of this thesis is twofold: 1) to investigate and analyze the actual use of spatial-deictic
demonstratives in Japanese, Finnish and Swedish, and 2) to investigate and analyze …

One way of defining speech style shift, though a broad one, would be that it is an alternative
way of saying the same thing with different indexical values based on different contexts and …

抄録 In this paper we attempt to construct a dynamic model of discourse management, a
version of Mental Space Theory, modified to accommodate dialogic discourse by …

抄録 日本語の指示詞の 3 系列 (コソア) は, いずれも直示用法とともに非直示用法を持つ.
本稿では 「直示」 の本質を 「談話に先立って話し手がその存在を認識している対象を …

In this paper, the anaphoric usage of the Japanese determiners kono and sono are
investigated. Their usages can be categorized as siteisizi (designated usage) or daikousizi …