Japanese sentence-final particles in talk-in-interaction, The

The Japanese Sentence-Final Particles in Talk-in-Interaction; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Transcript conventions; 1. Introduction; 2. Sentence-final interactional particles in Japanese; 3. Methodology; 4. The particles in an unmarked talk-in-interaction type; 5. The particles in a marked talk-in-interaction type; 6. The particles in native/non-native talk-in-interaction; 7. Conclusions and implications; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; References; Index; Pragmatics & Beyond New Series.
The Japanese sentence-final particles, ne, yo and yone have proved notoriously difficult to explain and are especially challenging for second language users. This book investigates the role of the particles in talk-in-interaction with the aim of providing a comprehensive understanding that accounts for their pragmatic properties and sequential functions and that provides a sound basis for second language pedagogy. This study starts by setting up an original particle function hypothesis based on the figure/ground gestalt, and then tests its validity empirically with unmarked, marked and native.