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Publication details [#25538]

Kamio, Akio. 1994. The theory of territory of information:The case of Japanese. Journal of Pragmatics 21 (1) : 67–100.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

information theory

Language as a subject

English | Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This article provides a theory of territory of information, using Japanese as a target language, in which the notion of evidentiality is explained in terms of psychological distance between information and the speaker/hearer.