Yuka Matsugu

List of John Benjamins publications in which Yuka Matsugu is involved.

Articles

Matsugu, Yuka 2008 The power of femininity: Can Japanese gender variation signify contradictory social meanings? Style Shifting in Japanese, Jones, Kimberly and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 185–212 | Chapter

Matsugu, Yuka 2005 Japanese epistemic sentence-final particle kana : Its function as a ‘mitigation marker’ in discourse data Pragmatics 15:4, pp. 423–436 | Article

The Japanese language is known for its sentence-final particles (SFPs hereafter) that express modality. Although modality would seem to be inseparable from context, only a limited number of studies have explicated the nature of SFPs based on data from conversations. This paper discusses the… read more