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Modality packaging in Japanese : the encoding of modal meanings and subjectivity

In English

Författare

  • Lars Larm

Summary, in English

This paper focuses on the grammatical expression or ‘packaging’ of modality in Japanese. I consider two aspects: (1) the grammatical encoding of epistemic, deontic, and evidential notions with English as a point of comparison, and (2) the co-encoding of modality and subjectivity. As for the former aspect, the comparison between Japanese and English exemplifies how languages can take different strategies for grammatical modality packaging, linking and encoding cognitive categories in language-specific ways. Regarding the latter aspect, I discuss how modal markers exhibit different degrees of subjectivity. Not only epistemic modality, whose subjective character is often mentioned in the literature, but also deontic and evidential modality can be subjective or objective. I also consider the broader implications for linguistic theory.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2014

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

20-46

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Studies in Pragmatics

Volym

16

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Brill

Ämne

  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Nyckelord

  • modality packaging
  • epistemic
  • deontic
  • evidential
  • subjectivity

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1750-368X