Intonation units in Japanese conversation : syntactic, informational and functional structures / Kazuko Matsumoto.

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 intonation units (IUs) as basic units of discourse pr...

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Main Author: Matsumoto, Kazuko, 1955-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Benjamins, 2003.
Series:Studies in language companion series ; 65.
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