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Discourse Functions of Phatic Interjections in the English, Russian and Japanese Languages (with special focus on English)
| Title: | Discourse Functions of Phatic Interjections in the English, Russian and Japanese Languages (with special focus on English) |
| Other Titles: | 英語、ロシア語、日本語における交感感動詞の談話機能 : 英語を中心として |
| Authors: | Petrishcheva, Nina Browse this author |
| Issue Date: | 23-Mar-2007 |
| Publisher: | Hokkaido University |
| Abstract: | The dissertation presents a contrastive analysis of discourse functions performed by some phatic interjections in the English, Russian and Japanese languages. Although the word class of interjections has recently gained interest of linguists both in Japan and abroad, there has been neither contrastive analysis of the three languages nor a comprehensive description of conditions defining the discourse functions of the interjections within one language. The goals of this paper are (i) to identify conditions distinguishing between the discourse–marker and speech–act functions of the interjections; (ii) to examine types of discourse markers and speech acts the interjections can constitute and (iii) to investigate differences and commonalities displayed by the interjections with respect to positions (i) and (ii) both within a particular language and cross–linguistically. The study claims that the condition distinguishing between the two discourse functions of the interjections is the same in the three languages. It is the place of the interjections with respect to a communication scenario evoked. When the interjections are used outside the communication scenario, they serve the phatic function of language as discourse markers. When the interjections occupy some position within the structure of the communication scenario, they serve the informative function of language as speech acts. Contrastive analysis of the discourse marker and speech act types allowed me to identify which of the interjections constitute functional equivalents in the three languages. |
| Conffering University: | 北海道大学 |
| Degree Report Number: | 甲第7977号 |
| Degree Level: | 博士 |
| Degree Discipline: | 文学 |
| Type: | theses (doctoral) |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/30160 |
| Appears in Collections: | 学位論文 (Theses) > 博士 （文学）
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Submitter: Nina Petrishcheva
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