The objective of the present study is to find the meanings and the usage of final particles in Japanese, namely KA, NE, and YO. Most linguists have focused their explanations around the possession of information or the territory each... of these particles belongs to; that is, YO is used when the knowledge belongs to the speaker, and so forth. However, there are many cases that cannot be explained by these traditional definitions. For example, (7) Chotto yuubinkyoku ni itte kuru NE. (I’ll go

of conjunctions in essays by Thai learners is both similar and different to that of Japanese native speakers. Regardling similarities, Thai learners use the conjunction ‘shikashi’ ‘mata’ and ‘soshite’ as often as apanese native speakers. This may be because.... Regarding differences, Thai learners use more conjunctions like ‘soreni’ and ‘dakara’ in their essays compared to the essays of Japanese native speakers who use less conjunctions. This may be because native Japanese speakers understand the use of ‘soreni

The purpose of this research is to study how to translate personal reference terms in Japanese novels into Thai. The analysis was based on four factors: gender of the speakers, age, social status and intimacy between the speakers and the listeners.... The data used are เมียชายชั่ว (Viyon No Tsuma), รถไฟสายทางช้างเผือก (Ginga Tetsudo no Yoru), โต๊ะโตะจังเด็กหญิงข้างหน้าต่าง (Madogiwa no Totto-chan), กระต่ายแก้ว (Garasu no Usagi) and โคะโคะโระ (Kokoro), and their original Japanese novels. Two strategies

statistics and Wilcoxon signed - rank test were used to compare the data. The findings revealed that the students’ Japanese conversation style of the post-test were significantly higher than the pre-test at .01 level (z = 2.956, p-value = 0.003). Speaker role...This research aimed to study the effects of the learning activity based on Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) and Reader’s Theatre (RT) on Japanese conversation style (共話 or Kyouwa). The sample of this study was 11 students who were eleventh

and Japanese group discussions. The results revealed that the purposes of metapragmatic commentary used among both Thai and Japanese speakers included 3 major goals: assessing speech activities, organizing talk, and clarifying communicative intention... of communication. Thai speakers’ communication style tends to be more direct, while Japanese prefer to modify their opinion to be consistent with others by expressing hesitation.

The purpose of this study is to compare the acoustic characteristics of the five Bangkok Thai tones as produced by five Japanese speakers to those produced by native Thai speakers. The five tonal characteristics of Thai speakers are as follows - mid...-level (sǎa- man), low-level (?eek), high-falling (thoo), mid-rising (trii) and low-rising (chàt-tà?-waa). The tonal characteristics of level tones produced by Japanese speakers are somewhat different from those produced by Thai speakers. High tone

” that occurs during Thai and Japanese group discussions. The results revealed that the purposes of metapragmatic commentary used among both Thai and Japanese speakers included 3 major goals: assessing speech activities, organizing talk, and clarifying... and Japanese reflects different styles of communication. Thai speakers’ communication style tends to be more direct, while Japanese prefer to modify their opinion to be consistent with others by expressing hesitation

in a conversation with a person whom a speaker has such value with. The aim of this paper is to compare the social functions of “khwam krengjai” and “enryo” in Thai and Japanese context, focusing on the uses of the verb “krengjai” and “enryo suru... to the hearer 3) to encourage the hearer to invite the speaker again 4) to create a good image for the speaker. Among these four functions, there is only the first function which corresponds to the function of "enryo" in Japanese. This reflects that even in both

Although both Japanese and Thai have classifiers, the way of using classifiers are different in each language. So that means both Japanese and Thai native speakers have some differences in their perception. There are several previous studies... on the semantic extension of the Japanese classifier “hon”. However, the research for “hon” is still under-researched area. In addition, the previous studies seem insufficient about the criteria for proper use of Thai classifiers. Moreover, the detailed research

between Japanese native speakers (JJJ) and Thai learners (TTH). Regarding the analysis, the data from JJJ and TTH in a story writing task were collected from the International Corpus of Japanese as a Second Language. The result of the observation...เล่าเรื่องจากภาพของชาวญี่ปุ่นและผู้เรียนภาษาญี่ปุ่นชาวไทย กลุ่มละ 50 คนจากคลังข้อมูล International Corpus of Japanese as a Second Language ผลการศึกษาพบว่า ชาวญี่ปุ่นใช้สำนวนแสดงมุมมองในแต่ละโครงสร้างต่างกัน ในโครงสร้าง承ชาวญี่ปุ่นส่วนใหญ่ไม่ใช้สำนวนแสดง