Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2022)

Variant and Usage Meaning of -tte as an End of Sentences Particle in Japanese Informal Conversations

A Semantic Study

Authors
Risma Rismelati1, *
1Graduate School of Language and Culture Department, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
*Corresponding author. Email: riris.melati85@gmail.com
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Risma Rismelati
Available Online 30 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_77How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Denbun; Informal conversation; Inyou; Japanese conversation corpus; –tte
ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to examine thoroughly the meaning of -tte particle that used in Japanese informal conversations. -tte is a contraction form commonly used in informal conversational discourse in order to express hearsay (denbun) and quotation (inyou), which also known as sou da and to iu. To support the understanding the context of conversational discourse comprehensively, we will comprehend prior –tte studies from Moritoki (1994), Hui (1999) also Maruyama (2002). This study used a descriptive method and collected data from 15 conversations on Corpus of Everyday Japanese Conversation (version 2022.03). The result showed that the meaning of the –tte particle at the end of the sentences could have been functioned as hearsay, quotation, and question, in way to indicate speaker’s surprises, emphasize strong judgement, correct one’s statement, indicate indirective imperative form and indicate disagreement by questioning one’s statement.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
30 December 2022
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_77
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_77How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2022 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Risma Rismelati
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/30
TI  - Variant and Usage Meaning of -tte as an End of Sentences Particle in Japanese Informal Conversations
BT  - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 490
EP  - 495
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_77
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