Topicalization in Japanese Cooking Discourse

A topic-wa-phrase is analyzed here in written recipes and the corresponding spoken instructional cooking discourse. Despite the possible assumption that the topic phrase is not used in recipes, the analysis shows that ingredients of a recipe are selectively topicalized. Those topicalized are the pri...

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Main Author: Shimojo Mitsuaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2019-12-01
Series:Open Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0028