Negotiation of Contingent Talk: The Japanese Interactional Particles ne and sa

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 223
Author(s):  
Mariko Karatsu ◽  
Emi Morita
Keyword(s):  
Interactional Particles

Discourse functions and pitch patterns of the Japanese interactional particle yo in student-professor conversation

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-257
Author(s):  
Kyoko Masuda
Keyword(s):  
Social Contexts ◽  
The Other ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
One To One ◽  
Pitch Patterns ◽  
Discourse Functions ◽  
Interactional Particles

Abstract Until recently Japanese interactional particles have largely been investigated in various social contexts without paying much attention to intonation. Building on Shimotani (2006) that examined discourse functions and the intonation yo in informal talk among friends, the current study intends to contribute to interactional particle research by analyzing yo in six sets of one-to-one student-professor conversations. The findings demonstrate that the students and professors exhibited different pitch patterns of yo. Students tended to use yo with a falling pitch [+fall] when performing pre-story-telling, and frequently used the n-desu-yo construction. The professor, on the other hand, often used yo [−fall] when providing opinions or advice. These results will be discussed from Ochs’ social constructive discourse approach perspective. The present study concludes that both discourse functions and pitch patterns in interactional particles are important linguistic resources used to construct speakers’ social personae and stance-building. As such, pedagogical implications will be provided.

scholarly journals Gender Stereotype in Prosody: Japanese Interactional Particles NE and YO

2002 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Mie Hiramoto-Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotype ◽  
General Will ◽  
Pitch Range ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Interactional Particles

In this paper, I will focus on how prosody affects the interpretation of genderneutral interactional particles ne and yo in Japanese. The interactional particles are potential sites for stereotyping, and "males have flatter intonation pattern than females do in pitch range and pitch heights" (McConnell-Ginet 1983: 73). Based on these assumptions, a purpose of the paper is to find possible answers for the following research questions: I) Will gender stereotype characteristics appear on some of the most frequently used particles such as ne  or yo?  and 2) Wil female-style speech, in general, will be more emphasized than male-style speech?

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