Japanese Questions: Discourse, Context and Language by Lidia Tanaka - 2015

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Tanaka presents students, academics, and researchers with an investigation of formal and informal interactions in Japanese discourse, arguing that the inherent multi-functional and polysemous aspect of language can be found in the use of questions in Japanese. The author has organized the main body of her text in seven chapters, covering Japanese questions and interrogativity, establishing topics and eliciting talk, information collecting and footing, and a variety of other related subjects. Lidia Tanaka is a faculty member of La Trobe University, Australia. (2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)