THE USAGE OF SENTENCE-FINAL PARTICLES IN ACTION COMICS KUREYON SHINCHAN 1

Abstract

This paper aims to find out the usage of Japanese sentence-final particles. The source data is a comic book entitled action comics kureyon shinchan 1. Japanese particles found in the data areanalyzed descriptively by categorizing them based on the gender and age of the speakers. Several sentence-final particles can be found in the data, such as wa, yo, ne, no, wa yo. Some of those sentence-final particles are gender and age-restricted; they can only be used by specific genders and ages