How can you be so certain? The use of hearsay evidentials by English-speaking learners of Japanese

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1281-1304

  Ishida, Kazutoh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

English speaking learners of Japanese; Evidentials; Hearsay information; Japanese; L1 L2 transfer; Theory of territory of information

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745193951     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2005.10.006     Document Type: Article

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