Development of the Discourse Function of the Japanese Conjunctive Partcle kara in Learners' Language

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  • 学習者言語にみる接続助詞「から」の談話機能の発達
  • ガクシュウシャ ゲンゴ ニ ミル セツゾク ジョシ カラ ノ ダンワ キノウ ノ ハッタツ

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This paper studies the developmental process of the discourse function of the Japanese conjunctive particle kara. To do so, I present a new classification standard focusing on the positional order of the main clause and kara. That is 1) propositional [E1] (~ kara / main clause), 2) text 1 (main clause / ~ kara), 3) text 2 (~ kara / other clause /main clause; main clause / other clause / ~ kara), 4) discourse management 1 (main clause stated by another person just after ~ kara), 5) discourse management 2 (main clause stated by another person just before ~ kara), 6) expressive (no main clause). A sample was collected twice from 18 learners of Japanese (just after arrival in Japan and after six months of living in Japan). For comparison purposes, a sample was also collected from 20 native Japanese. As a result of comparison of the functional distribution of the Japanese conjunctive particle kara used in the samples from learners of Japanese and native Japanese, the development of the discourse function of kara was 1) simple sentence → complex sentence→text, 2) dependent upon conversational partner→ self-completion→ collaborative conversational style→ compound collaborative conversational style.

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