Download or read book A Text-based Study of the Interpersonal Grammar of Modern Japanese written by Ayako Ochi and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This thesis is a text-based study of mood, modality and evidentiality of Japanese. It describes these grammatical systems from a systemic functional perspective and explores their manifeststations in the language of news reports. The study finds that mood, modality and evidentiality are distinct systems in lexicogrammar, with mood and modality shading into each other in semantics. The study also finds that in the register of news reporting, evidentiality is not only realized interpersonally, but also realized ideationally across the ranks through projection, from clause complex, clause, group to word" -- abstract.