Kaneyasu2017

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Kaneyasu2017
BibType ARTICLE
Key Kaneyasu2017
Author(s) Michiko Kaneyasu, Shoichi Iwasaki
Title Indexing 'entrustment': An analysis of the Japanese formulaic construction (N da yo N)
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Tag(s) EMCA, Pragmatics, Construction Grammar, Dialogism, Indexicality Theory, Entrustment, Japanese
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Year 2017
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Journal Discourse Studies
Volume 19
Number 4
Pages 402–421
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DOI 10.1177/1461445617706592
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Abstract

Japanese conversations are known to contain a large amount of unexpressed information. When a speaker speaks with elliptical information, he or she assumes that the addressee will understand what is not overtly expressed based on the knowledge that is supposed to be shared textually, personally or culturally. The addressee, on the other hand, must determine what is not being expressed overtly using such shared knowledge. At the heart of this kind of communication is the existence of trust assumed among the interlocutors. Using the term ‘entrustment’, we will examine how one particular Japanese formulaic construction, [Noun (da) yo Noun], ‘It’s Noun, you know, Noun’, indexes mutual trust to manage conversational interaction. We will argue that this meta-pragmatic awareness needs to be recognized beyond surface interactional patterns identified in conversation.

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