Japanese unnun as a meta-discourse placeholder: Exploring its grammatical and functional properties
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pc.00043.ser" target="_blank" >10.1075/pc.00043.ser</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Japanese unnun as a meta-discourse placeholder: Exploring its grammatical and functional properties
Original language description
Previous studies have described a range of placeholder (PH) items. A PH fills in the grammatical slot of a target that a speaker is unable or unwilling to produce. This paper argues that Japanese unnun, an expression wholly underdescribed in the literature, serves as a PH and that it may also be used as a general extender (GE). Unlike previously known PHs, unnun is regarded as a ‘meta-discourse’ PH; it replaces a discourse segment, rather than a linguistic form. I develop a cognitive-pragmatic account in Relevance theory, arguing that unnun encodes procedural meaning and that the PH and GE functions emerge through interaction among encoded meaning, pragmatic principles, and contextual assumptions. Further, the account situates unnun in the broader picture of vague language in a theoretically coherent manner. I also suggest that some of the previously described PHs in other languages may be re-classified as meta-discourse PHs. © 2024 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)
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Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Pragmatics and Cognition
ISSN
15699943
e-ISSN
09290907
Volume of the periodical
31
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
29
Pages from-to
156 - 184
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85208216944