Perspectives on Topicalization: The Case of Japanese “Wa”.By John Hinds, Senko K. Maynard, and Shoichi Iwasaki Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Co., 1987. $56.00(cloth); $29.95(paper).

Abstract

1. Preface 2. Part I: Wa in narrative and expository discourse 3. The use of wa as a cohesion marker in Japanese oral narratives (by Clancy, Patricia M.) 4. Thematization as a staging device in the Japanese narrative (by Maynard, Senko K.) 5. Thematization, assumed familiarity, staging, and syntactic binding in Japanese (by Hinds, John) 6. Identifiability, scope-setting, and the particle wa: A study of Japanese spoken expository discourse (by Iwasaki, Shoichi) 7. A study of the so-called topic wa in passages from Tolstoi, Lawrenceand Faulkner (of course, in Japanese translation) (by Kuroda, S.-Y.) 8. Part II: Wa and other syntactic phenomena 9. The role of wa in negation (by McGloin, Naomi Hanaoka) 10. Wa and the WH phrase (by Miyagawa, Shigeru) 11. Part III: Historical perspectives on wa 12. Functions of the theme marker wa from synchronic and diachronic perspectives (by Ueno, Noriko Fujii) 13. Wa in diachronic perspective (by Wolf, Charles M. De) 14. Part IV: Pragmatic perspectives on wa 15. How relevant is a functional notion of communicative orientation to ga and wa? (by Makino, Seiichi) 16. Abbreveations

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