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Peer reviewedTakahara, Paul O. – Language Sciences, 1979
Investigates the functional nature of the communication process observed in interactions of English-speaking and Japanese-speaking children from the two-word stage onward, with special attention to the given/new contract and pragmatic factors. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Child Language, Discourse Analysis, English, Japanese
Peer reviewedEriksson, Mats – Language Sciences, 1995
Describes the grammaticalization of the Swedish word "bara" (English "just") in present-day adolescent speech. "Bara" has in the last 15 years been used with 2 new functions in spoken, narrative discourse: to foreground central events and to introduce quotations. (40 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adolescents, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedCarston, Robyn; Noh, Eun-Ju – Language Sciences, 1996
Argues that essential property of metalinguistic negation is that it involves the echoic use of material falling within the scope of negation operator. This analysis receives support from an investigation of data from Korean. (25 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Contrastive Linguistics, Inferences, Korean
