The rise of demonstrative-based first/second-person markers in the history of Japanese: A speaker subjectivity account
This paper explores the rise of demonstrative-based person markers in the history of Japanese and takes Ishiyama's spatial semantic approach as its point of departure. Despite the claim that demonstrative-based person markers remained functionally demonstrative, I argue that they began to manif...
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| description | This paper explores the rise of demonstrative-based person markers in the history of Japanese and takes Ishiyama's spatial semantic approach as its point of departure. Despite the claim that demonstrative-based person markers remained functionally demonstrative, I argue that they began to manifest the category of person from an early stage of their development; that is to say, thanks to speaker innovation, demonstratives underwent semantic re-analysis to become markers representing the speaker's ego in the reality of discourse. This paper also pinpoints that two notions, distancing and dissimilarity, are not spelled out in Ishiyama's framework. In conclusion, the substitution of the first-person marker for the second-person marker is analysed tentatively using Keller's theory of linguistic signs. |
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| spelling | um.eprints-194142018-09-26T02:45:17Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/19414/ The rise of demonstrative-based first/second-person markers in the history of Japanese: A speaker subjectivity account Yamaguchi, T. DS Asia PE English This paper explores the rise of demonstrative-based person markers in the history of Japanese and takes Ishiyama's spatial semantic approach as its point of departure. Despite the claim that demonstrative-based person markers remained functionally demonstrative, I argue that they began to manifest the category of person from an early stage of their development; that is to say, thanks to speaker innovation, demonstratives underwent semantic re-analysis to become markers representing the speaker's ego in the reality of discourse. This paper also pinpoints that two notions, distancing and dissimilarity, are not spelled out in Ishiyama's framework. In conclusion, the substitution of the first-person marker for the second-person marker is analysed tentatively using Keller's theory of linguistic signs. John Benjamins Publishing 2015 Article PeerReviewed Yamaguchi, T. (2015) The rise of demonstrative-based first/second-person markers in the history of Japanese: A speaker subjectivity account. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 16 (2). pp. 250-276. ISSN 1566-5852, DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.16.2.05yam <https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.16.2.05yam>. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jhp.16.2.05yam doi:10.1075/jhp.16.2.05yam |
| spellingShingle | DS Asia PE English Yamaguchi, T. The rise of demonstrative-based first/second-person markers in the history of Japanese: A speaker subjectivity account |
| title | The rise of demonstrative-based first/second-person markers in the history of Japanese: A speaker subjectivity account |
| title_full | The rise of demonstrative-based first/second-person markers in the history of Japanese: A speaker subjectivity account |
| title_fullStr | The rise of demonstrative-based first/second-person markers in the history of Japanese: A speaker subjectivity account |
| title_full_unstemmed | The rise of demonstrative-based first/second-person markers in the history of Japanese: A speaker subjectivity account |
| title_short | The rise of demonstrative-based first/second-person markers in the history of Japanese: A speaker subjectivity account |
| title_sort | rise of demonstrative based first second person markers in the history of japanese a speaker subjectivity account |
| topic | DS Asia PE English |
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