[Asia_news] Japan Centre Seminar [Duck-Young Lee, 20-10-06, E2.12, 12pm]

[Shunichi Ishihara]

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       Japan Centre Seminar
        - see:
http://asianstudies.anu.edu.au/wiki/index.php/Japan_Centre_Seminars

        Friday, 20th October, 2006, 12pm
        BPB E2.12, Faculty of Asian Studies, College of Asian and the
Pacific, ANU
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Title: Logic vs. emotion: In the case of the particle omission in Japanese

Speaker: Duck-Young Lee, Japan Centre, ANU

In this seminar I will discuss the particle omission, which is well
known as a unique characteristic of spoken conversation in Japanese. I
will first clarify the environment of the particle omission, including
the generalisation as to what particles may or may not be omitted, and
in what genre the omission may occur. I will then offer an analysis of
its function, in conjunction with the interrelation of logic and emotion.

The point is that the use of language in face-to-face conversation often
involves the expression of the speaker's emotional aspects toward the
hearer and the particle omission functions to reinforce such an
emotional aspect, in compensation for the loss of the explicit
specification of logic.