Book contents
- Salience of Information in Japanese
- Salience of Information in Japanese
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Transcriptions
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Background
- 3 Backward-Looking Salience and Argument Forms
- 4 Backward-Looking Salience and Argument Forms
- 5 Predicate-Less Constructions
- 6 Forward-Looking Non-salience and Argument Forms
- 7 Concluding Remarks
- References
- Index
7 - Concluding Remarks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2024
- Salience of Information in Japanese
- Salience of Information in Japanese
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Transcriptions
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Background
- 3 Backward-Looking Salience and Argument Forms
- 4 Backward-Looking Salience and Argument Forms
- 5 Predicate-Less Constructions
- 6 Forward-Looking Non-salience and Argument Forms
- 7 Concluding Remarks
- References
- Index
Summary
While summarizing the main points, the concluding chapter revisits the bidimensional model of salience based on the study of Japanese discourse and its implications for RRG, which is followed by remarks on the findings in the study of L2 Japanese discourse. Overall, zero and topic coding of arguments and zero coding of predicates mostly pertain to backward-looking salience, while predicate-less repetitions in L1 discourse relate to the forward-looking dimension of salience. On the other hand, zero marking and post-predicate coding of arguments pertain to forward-looking salience, specifically to imposing non-salience. With these, the study provides abundant evidence for the RRG claim that discourse-pragmatics plays a role in virtually every part of grammatical systems. Furthermore, the analysis of both backward-looking and forward-looking salience demonstrates the bidirectional discourse–syntax interfaces, an important property of the parallel architecture theory, because the backward-looking and forward-looking dimensions are relevant to the discourse-to-syntax and syntax-to-discourse linking respectively.
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- Salience of Information in JapaneseDiscourse and the Syntax–Pragmatics Interface, pp. 238 - 246Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024