Japanese epistemic sentence-final particle kana: Its function as a 'mitigation marker' in discourse data

Pragmatics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 423-436

  Matsugu, Yuka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Doubt; Interrogative; Japanese; Mitigation; Naturally occurring conversation; Sentence final particle

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644777677     PISSN: 10182101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/prag.15.4.02mat     Document Type: Article

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