Linguistic Emotivity: Centrality of place, the topic–comment dynamic, and an ideology of pathos in Japanese discourse
Senko K. Maynard
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Linguistic Emotivity
Pragmatics & Beyond New Series Editor Andreas H. Jucker Justus Liebig University Giessen, English Department Otto-Behaghel-Strasse 10, D-35394 Giessen, Germany e-mail:
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Linguistic Emotivity Centrality of place, the topic–comment dynamic, and an ideology of pathos in Japanese discourse
Senko K. Maynard Rutgers University
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