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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mitsuaki Shimojo (State University of New York, Buffalo)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.570kg ISBN: 9781009421829ISBN 10: 1009421824 Pages: 282 Publication Date: 04 April 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPreface; List of abbreviations; Notes on transcriptions; 1. Introduction; 2. Background; 3. Backward-looking salience and argument forms: discourse analysis; 4. Backward-looking salience and argument forms: RRG representations; 5. Predicate-less constructions; 6. Forward-looking non-salience and arguement forms; 7. Concluding remarks.Reviews'Shimojo's book breaks new ground in the investigation of information structure in Japanese. It explores important issues in the syntax-pragmatics interface using discourse data collected from L1 and L2 Japanese speakers and applying the approaches of Role and Reference Grammar and Centering Theory. The result is a revealing and insightful account of the role of salience in the analysis of the interaction of syntax and discourse in Japanese.' Robert D. Van Valin, Jr, University at Buffalo (SUNY) and Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf 'The exploration of NP-wa vis-à-vis zero anaphora on the one hand and NP-ga on the other has been a central issue in Japanese linguistics. Despite the substantial body of literature dedicated to this subject, recent years have seen minimal progress. This book reexamines previously addressed observations and introduces novel findings, aligning with the ongoing trend towards more inclusive approaches in linguistic analysis to account for a spectrum of syntactic phenomena influenced by context and pragmatics. The study is anchored in a meticulous literature review and an analysis of the author's experimental data, notably incorporating sentences created by L2 learners of Japanese. This contribution significantly enhances our understanding of the salience of information encoding in discourse, solidifying its place as an indispensable reference for years to come.' Yoko Hasegawa, University of California, Berkeley 'This book is a very welcome development in Role and Reference Grammar, as it is grounded in natural discourse data, and so pushes the envelope on our understanding of the role of pragmatic factors in determining morphosyntactic form, covering not only focus structure, but also reference, cohesion, and salience.' Randy J. LaPolla, Beijing Normal University and Nanyang Technological University 'This book is an essential reference in the study of discourse salience, its morphosyntactic realizations and attention control functions in discourse. Through in-depth investigation of authentic L1 and L2 Japanese texts, the author revisits and refines the bidimensional model of salience and illustrates the strengths of parallel architecture theories in the exploration of the discourse-morphosyntax interface.' Delia Bentley, Professor of Linguistics, The University of Manchester Author InformationMitsuaki Shimojo is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. His notable publications include Argument Encoding in Japanese Conversation (2005). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |