Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Table of contents xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1. Where epistemology, style, and grammar meet: A case study from Japanese 38
7. Chapter 2. On grammar and narration 60
8. Chapter 3. Reflections on the foundations of narrative theory, from a linguistic point of view 71
9. Chapter 4. Some thoughts on the foundations of the theory of language use 102
10. Chapter 5. The reformulated theory of speech acts: Toward a theory of language use 119
11. Chapter 6. A study of the so-called topic wa in passages from Tolstoi , Lawrence , and Faulkner (of course, in Japanese translation) 133
12. Bibliography 151
13. Index 160