Cost and benefit in language use: A case study of sentence particles in Japanese.
This thesis purports to introduce a cost and benefit theory of politeness which sheds light upon the politeness system in Japanese. This involves the assumption that a communicative act is a rational act, executed for a communicative goal. Given so, politeness-bearing language use is strategic in na...
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The University of Arizona.
1990
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185164 |