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Japanese discourse markers: Synchronic and diachronic discourse analysis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 March 2007
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Noriko O. Onodera, Japanese discourse markers: Synchronic and diachronic discourse analysis. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004. Pp. xiv, 253. Hb $132.00.
Onodera's work is one of the first historical-pragmatic studies of Japanese, which is typologically dissimilar to Indo-European languages. After providing background information (Ch. 1 and 2), Onodera (hereafter O) presents her latest thoughts on the evolution of Japanese discourse markers (DMs), dealing with two types coming from different sources: demo type connectives (so-called adversative conjunctions), originally from clause-final connecting devices (Ch. 3 and 4), and na elements (often called sentence-final particles (SFPs)/interjections of agreement), originally from SFPs (Ch. 5 and 6), followed by the conclusion.
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