Principles of Japanese Discourse
Author : Senko K. Maynard
Publisher :
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,81 MB
Release : 2009
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Principles of Japanese Discourse
Author : Senko K. Maynard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 1998-03-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521590952
Book Description
This is the first book on Japanese rhetorical style and strategy ever made available for English readers. Professor Maynard presents, in thirty entries, clear explication of Japanese discourse organization and detailed analysis of the rhetorical strategies used. Also included are practice readings selected from contemporary Japanese discourse, including essays, newspaper columns, a short story, a comic and an advertisement, with translations and wordlists. A helpful self-study guide, it is also an excellent reference source for students and instructors of Japanese.
Linguistic Creativity in Japanese Discourse
Author : Senko K. Maynard
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 39,55 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027254023
Book Description
Using theoretical concepts of self, perspective, and voice as an interpretive guide, and based on the Place of Negotiation theory, this volume explores the phenomenon of linguistic creativity in Japanese discourse, i.e., the use of language in specific ways for foregrounding personalized expressive meanings. Personalized expressive meanings include psychological, emotive, interpersonal, and rhetorical aspects of communication, encompassing broad meanings such as feelings of intimacy or distance, emotion, empathy, humor, playfulness, persona, sense of self, identity, rhetorical effects, and so on. Nine analysis chapters explore the meanings, functions, and effects observable in the indices of linguistic creativity, focusing on discourse creativity (style mixture, borrowing others' styles, genre mixture), rhetorical creativity (puns, metaphors, metaphors in multimodal discourse), and grammatical creativity (negatives, demonstratives, first-person references). Based on the analysis of verbal and visual data drawn from multiple genres of contemporary cultural discourse, this work reveals that by creatively expressing in language we share our worlds from multiple perspectives, we speak in self's and others' many voices, and we endlessly create personalized expressive meanings as testimony to our own sense of being.
日本語
Author : Senko K. Maynard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 35,4 MB
Release : 1998-03-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521599092
Book Description
Principles of Japanese Discourse offers the first detailed description in English of the structure and rhetorical effects observed in various genres of Japanese discourse. Drawing on Japanese bunshooron and incorporating results of Western discourse studies, the book covers principles of overall rhetorical organisation including ki-shoo-ten-ketsu, topic structure, danraku, and sentence chaining, and presents a variety of rhetorical strategies frequently used in contemporary Japanese texts. After presenting these principles in thirty compact entries, Professor Maynard invites the reader to apply the knowledge gained to the comprehension of contemporary authentic Japanese text. Seven selected readings are presented with vocabulary lists, discourse notes, and other tasks. Translations are provided in the appendix. In this book Professor Maynard has created a new category in the area of Japanese language learning and provided an excellent reference source not only for students but for instructors of the Japanese language worldwide.
Japanese Discourse Markers
Author : Noriko O. Onodera
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 30,60 MB
Release : 2004-12-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027294879
Book Description
This book is one of the pioneering historical pragmatic studies of Japanese. It closely illustrates the usage and contributions of some Japanese discourse markers, and reveals their developmental history. The section on Synchronic Analysis explores the previously uninvestigated functions of some discourse markers used in Present Day Japanese. Moment by moment in on-going conversations, where culturally rigidly-defined interactional norms are highly valued, a specific marker is chosen and used by the speakers as their strategy, based on their quite subjective judgment. The section on Diachronic Analysis then demonstrates chronologically how the meanings and forms of the same markers have come into being. Results include some noticeable changes related to the strengthened intersubjectivity. This multi-dimensional study also discusses the relevance of findings to typological characteristics and productivity. Consideration is further given to why certain expressions (rather than others) become discourse markers and independent forms in Japanese.
The Principles of Japanese Linguistics
Author : Motoki Tokieda
Publisher :
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 44,52 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9781727491173
Book Description
//The text is arranged in order for the Japanese original to come first and the English translation to follow page by page. It contains the complete Japanese original. The readers can see the linearity of the Japanese script.//Motoki Tokieda had a sense that the traditional view of language estranged itself either from the essential theory of language or the methodology for systematic organization of the national language. He found Akira Suzuki's theory on SHI and JI in a historical study of the national language which had been sunk in waves of modernization on and after the Meiji era, and tried to theoretically re-construct it, which is the origin of this book. //The expressive process theory of language regards a subject's process of expression up to sounds or characters itself as language. The theory on sounds, SHI and JI, and the nest form structure are assumed to be an index to the systematic organization of the national language, though they are developed along a traditional paradigm like phonetics, morphology, and syntax.
Bonding through Context
Author : Risako Ide
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 34,1 MB
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902726063X
Book Description
This book examines the linguistic and interactional mechanisms through which people bond or feel bonded with one another by analyzing situated discourse in Japanese contexts. The term “bonding” points to the sense of co-presence, belonging, and alignment with others as well as with the space of interaction. We analyze bonding as established, not only through the usage of language as a foregrounded code, but also through multi-layered contexts shared on the interactional, corporeal, and socio-cultural levels. The volume comprises twelve chapters examining the processes of bonding (and un-bonding) using situated discourse taken from rich ethnographic data including police suspect interrogations, Skype-mediated family conversations, theatrical rehearsals, storytelling, business email correspondence and advertisements. While the book focuses on processes of bonding in Japanese discourse, the concept of bonding can be applied universally in analyzing the co-creation of semiotic, pragmatic, and communal space in situated discourse.
The Social Life of the Japanese Language
Author : Shigeko Okamoto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 25,79 MB
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1316720616
Book Description
Why are different varieties of the Japanese language used differently in social interaction, and how are they perceived? How do honorifics operate to express diverse affective stances, such as politeness? Why have issues of gendered speech been so central in public discourse, and how are they reflected and refracted in language use as social practice? This book examines Japanese sociolinguistic phenomena from a fascinating new perspective, focusing on the historical construction of language norms and its relationship to actual language use in contemporary Japan. This socio-historically sensitive account stresses the different choices which have shaped Japanese and Western sociolinguistics and how varieties of Japanese, honorifics and politeness, and gendered language have emerged in response to the socio-political landscape in which a modernizing Japan found itself.
Japanese Communication
Author : Senko K. Maynard
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 12,84 MB
Release : 1997-06-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780824818784
Book Description
In an accessible and original study of the Japanese language in relation to Japanese society and culture, Senko Maynard characterizes the ways of communicating in Japanese and explores Japanese language-associated modes of thinking and feeling. Japanese Communication: Language and Thought in Context opens with a comparison of basic American and Japanese values via cultural icons--the cowboy and the samurai--before leading the reader to the key concept in her study: rationality. Writing for those who have a basic knowledge of Japanese language and culture, Maynard examines topics such as masculine and feminine speech, swearing, expressions of ridicule and conflict, adverbs of emotional attitude and the eloquence of silence. Maynard provides a refreshing and entertaining perspective for interpreting contemporary Japan, sometimes in contrast to the United States.
Japanese at Work
Author : Haruko Minegishi Cook
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 2018-04-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3319635492
Book Description
This book empirically explores how different linguistic resources are utilized to achieve appropriate workplace role inhabitance and to achieve work-oriented communicative ends in a variety of workplaces in Japan. Appropriate role inhabitance is seen to include considerations of gender and interpersonal familiarity, along with speaker orientation to normative structures for marking power and politeness. This uniquely researched edited collection will appeal to scholars of workplace discourse and Japanese sociolinguistics, as well as Japanese language instructors and adult learners of Japanese. It is sure to make a major contribution to the cross-linguistic/cultural study of workplace discourse in the globalized context of the twenty-first century.
