Japanese Concessives : KEDO and DEMO in utterance-initial use(<Special Issue>Individual Languages and Language Universals)

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The present paper aims to clarify the notion of procedural meaning as outlined in Relevance Theory by analysing two concessive particles in Japanese, DEMO and (DA)KEDO. Although DEMO and KEDO function both as subordinate conjunctions and as discourse connectives, I will concentrate on discourse connective uses as in "Yamada comes from Osaka. DEMO/KEDO he speaks standard Japanese." I will look at the range of interpretations where DEMO can replace KEDO without a change in meaning, and at those where the substitution of DEMO for KEDO is less acceptable or unacceptable. I will show that a procedural analysis of these expressions enables a unitary account of the similarities and differences between them. Both connectives are concessive and encode procedures, and differ in the types of procedural meaning they encode : DEMO specifies an inferential route which ends in the denial of an assumption derived from P, while with KEDO, the inferential route between P and Q involves deriving a contextual assumption 'If P, then not Q.' I want to claim that DEMO specifies primarily an intended effect, while KEDO specifies primarily an intended context.
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