Subjectivity in Grammar and Discourse: Theoretical Considerations and a Case Study of Japanese Spoken Discourse

by Shoichi Iwasaki

This book investigates the notion of subjectivity from a pragmatic point of view. There have been attempts to reduce the notion of the speaker or subjectivity as a syntactic category, or to seek an explanation for it in semantic terms. However, in order to understand the vast range of subjectivity phenomena, it is more fruitful to examine how the attributes and the experience of the real speaker affect language. The volume provides a theoretical/methodological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556193688
• ISBN13: 9781556193682
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 152 Pages