Japanese Honorifics as Emotive Definite Descriptions
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Japanese honorifics as emotive definite descriptions
Harada (1976) identifies honorifics as one of “the salient features of the Japanese language” (p. 500) and provides an extensive overview of pressing syntactic issues surrounding this system. But he remains noncommittal about the semantic contribution of these morphemes; the question of what honorifics mean, what they contribute to a discourse, is left unanswered. The present paper offers an an...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Semantics and Linguistic Theory
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2163-5951
DOI: 10.3765/salt.v0i0.2917