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Publication details [#14020]

Suzuki, Satoko. 1998. Tte and nante: Markers of psychological distance in Japanese conversation. Journal of Pragmatics 29 (4) : 429–462.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colloquialism | discourse marker | information structure

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

It is argued that the Japanese colloquial expressions TTE and NANTE are used when the degree of incorporation of information is low. In other words, when the speaker feels psychologically distanced from the information.