Kita’s usage in spoken discourse: Collectivity to singularity

• 第一著者: Yamaguchi, Toshiko
• フォーマット: 論文
• 出版事項: Universiti Putra Malaysia 2018
• 主題: PE English; PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
• オンライン･アクセス: http://eprints.um.edu.my/20324/; http://www.pertanika.upm.edu.my/Pertanika%20PAPERS/JSSH%20Vol.%2026%20(T)%20Dec.%202018/16%20JSSH-2995-2018.pdf

This short communication explains that kita ‘we’ has an alternative usage as a singular personal pronoun, presented as kita ‘I’. The usage of kita is classified into six classes, based on its substitutability with saya and the context in which kita occurs. The purpose of this paper is to prove that...