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Book Synopsis Handbook of Japanese Semantics and Pragmatics by : Wesley M. Jacobsen
Download or read book Handbook of Japanese Semantics and Pragmatics written by Wesley M. Jacobsen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 887 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume on Semantics and Pragmatics presents a collection of studies on linguistic meaning in Japanese, either as conventionally encoded in linguistic form (the field of semantics) or as generated by the interaction of form with context (the field of pragmatics), representing a range of ideas and approaches that are currently most influentialin these fields. The studies are organized around a model that has long currency in traditional Japanese grammar, whereby the linguistic clause consists of a multiply nested structure centered in a propositional core of objective meaning around which forms are deployed that express progressively more subjective meaning as one moves away from the core toward the periphery of the clause. The volume seeks to achieve a balance in highlighting both insights that semantic and pragmatic theory has to offer to the study of Japanese as a particular language and, conversely, contributions that Japanese has to make to semantic and pragmatic theory in areas of meaning that are either uniquely encoded, or encoded to a higher degree of specificity, in Japanese by comparison to other languages, such as conditional forms, forms expressing varying types of speaker modality, and social deixis.
Book Synopsis Pragmatic Change in Japanese by : Norikoe Okada Onodera
Download or read book Pragmatic Change in Japanese written by Norikoe Okada Onodera and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pragmatics of Japanese by : Mutsuko Endo Hudson
Download or read book Pragmatics of Japanese written by Mutsuko Endo Hudson and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the latest studies on Japanese pragmatics, this edited volume showcases the breadth of research conducted in this ever-expanding, interdisciplinary field, with the introductory chapter providing a useful summary of developments in the field in the past decades. The twelve chapters address a variety of traditional and emerging topics by adopting diverse theoretical and methodological frameworks and presenting a range of perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture. They demonstrate a wide scope of pragmatics research informed by, as well as informing, usage-based grammar, cognitive linguistics, conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and literary and cultural studies. Chapters also consider future directions as to how the study of Japanese language in use will continue to offer critical data and analyses to the field dominated by the study of English and other European languages. This volume is certain to be of interest to students and scholars engaged in pragmatics in general and the Japanese language in particular.
Book Synopsis Japanese Discourse Markers by : Noriko O. Onodera
Download or read book Japanese Discourse Markers written by Noriko O. Onodera and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004-12-23 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Turn-Taking in Japanese Conversation by : Hiroko Tanaka
Download or read book Turn-Taking in Japanese Conversation written by Hiroko Tanaka and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000-02-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the interpretation of grammar and turn-taking in Japanese talk-in-interaction from the perspective of conversation analysis. It pays special attention to the projectability patterns of turns in Japanese in comparison to English. Through qualitative and quantitative methods, it is shown that the postpositional grammatical structure and the predicate-final orientation in Japanese regularly result in a relatively delayed projectability of the possible point at which a current turn may become recognisably complete in comparison to English. Prior to such points, projectability is often limited to the progressive anticipation of small increments of talk. However, participants are able to achieve smooth speaker transitions with minimal gap or overlap through the use of specific grammatical and prosodic devices for marking possible points at which a transition may become relevant.
Book Synopsis Advertising Language by : Keiko Tanaka
Download or read book Advertising Language written by Keiko Tanaka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keiko Tanaka offers an analysis of the linguistic devices that are used in advertisements, looking at the strategems which advertisers employ to gain and retain the attention of their audience. Using relevance theory as a framework, she sets out its key aspects and applies them to the language of written advertising in Britain and Japan. Particular emphasis is placed on `covert communication', puns and metaphors, and the book contains a unique chapter on images of women in Japanese advertising. It is fully illustrated throughout with recent contrasting advertisements drawn from the two countries. The book provides a compelling analysis of the language of advertising, and an exploration of Relevance Theory that will be of interest to scholars in many fields.
Book Synopsis Pragmatic Implicatures and Particles in Japanese by : Kazunori Kimura
Download or read book Pragmatic Implicatures and Particles in Japanese written by Kazunori Kimura and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the properties of particles in Japanese from a pragmatic viewpoint. The main target of analysis is wa and ga, which are regarded as a topic and nominative marker respectively. The research is based on the pragmatic theory proposed by Levinson (2000). This dissertation consists of three parts as follows. The first part investigates the contrastive usage of wa/ha from a historical perspective. I elicited examples of wa/ha, ga and no from five Classical literary works and two Modern works. The text data showed that, in Late Old/Middle Japanese, the ha-marking worked as the emphatic marker, but not used for maintaining the topic continuity, while the ga as the nominative marker was scarce and with a limited distribution. I claim that the contrastive property of ha in Classical Japanese was provided by the M-implicature. In Early Modern Japanese, the two works showed different result.^Saikaku Shokokubanashi is regarded as a middle step toward Modern Japanese from Middle Japanese while Oku no Hosomichi retained the trend of the Late Old/Middle Japanese. The second part argues that the contrastive property of wa is given by the non-specificity implicature based on Grice's Maxim of Quantity. I proposed that the two particles form the scalar terms ga. wa, which means that the wa is informationally weaker than the ga. The hearer pragmatically infers that if a speaker knew that an NP was a specific item in the discourse, s/he would use ga, but actually s/he did not, and used wa instead, where s/he eliminates the possibility that the NP is the one and only one item in the discourse. In the case where wa appears at the position incompatible with ga, the implicature is given by M-implicature. Experiment was performed to test the hypothesis.^A free association task of writing a sentence following a wa-altered perceptual judgment sentence (ga-marked by default) and experiential judgment sentence (wa-marked by default) was given. The participants wrote the sentences in the way that they fulfill the contrastive framework more frequently after the wa-altered perceptual judgment sentences than after the experiential judgment sentences. The result exhibited the effect of the stronger implicature in the wa-altered perceptual judgment sentence. The third part examines the effect of particles attached to the quantifier terms to scalar implicatures in Japanese. A neo-Gricean view on scalar implicatures argues that quantifiers represent the lower bound in a default, i.e., "at least" interpretation, and pragmatics provides them with upper bound scalar implicatures.^I hypothesized the particle ga attached to quantifiers strengthens the implicatures of the sentence, while the particle wa weakens them and provides the "at least" interpretation. Zero marking cancels both effects. O has the similar but not so strong effect as ga. To prove this, two Experiments were performed based on the concept in Papafragou & Musolino (2003). A truth value judgment task was given to test sentences involving weaker terms, `eight', `some', and `most', marked by the particle ga, wa, o, and zero under the condition involving the strong term `all ten.' In Experiment I the effect of the particles was tested within-group. In Experiment II their effect were tested between distinct groups. The number term showed lower ratings of truth value judgment with ga than it did with wa in both experiments. In contrast, `most' showed higher ratings with ga than it did with wa only in Experiment I. The particles attached to `some' hardly provide any effect.^The observed regularities for the number term are explained by the exclusive function of ga and the contrastive usage of wa. The result for `most' is also explained by the proposal by Ariel (2004).
Book Synopsis Investigating Pragmatics in Foreign Language Learning, Teaching and Testing by : Eva Alcón Soler
Download or read book Investigating Pragmatics in Foreign Language Learning, Teaching and Testing written by Eva Alcón Soler and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2008-07-18 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on investigating pragmatic learning, teaching and testing in foreign language contexts. The volume brings together research that investigates these three areas in different formal language learning settings. The number and variety of languages involved both as the first language (e.g. English, Finnish, Iranian, Spanish, Japanese) as well as the target foreign language (e.g. English, French, German, Indonesian, Korean, Spanish) makes the volume specially attractive for language educators in different sociocultural foreign language contexts. Additionally, the different approaches adopted by the researchers participating in this volume, such as information processing, sociocultural, language socialization, computer-mediated or conversation analysis should be of interest to graduate students and researchers working in the area of second language acquisition.
Book Synopsis Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis of Verbs of Àsking' in Japanese by : Theresa Savage
Download or read book Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis of Verbs of Àsking' in Japanese written by Theresa Savage and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Regularity in Semantic Change by : Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Download or read book Regularity in Semantic Change written by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-12-20 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important study of semantic change examines how new meanings arise through language use, especially the various ways in which speakers and writers experiment with uses of words and constructions in the flow of strategic interaction with addressees. There has been growing interest in exploring systemicities in semantic change from a number of perspectives including theories of metaphor, pragmatic inferencing, and grammaticalization. Like earlier studies, these have for the most part been based on data taken out of context. This book is a detailed examination of semantic change from the perspective of historical pragmatics and discourse analysis. Drawing on extensive corpus data from over a thousand years of English and Japanese textual history, Traugott and Dasher show that most changes in meaning originate in and are motivated by the associative flow of speech and conceptual metonymy.
Book Synopsis Style Shifting in Japanese by : Kimberly Jones
Download or read book Style Shifting in Japanese written by Kimberly Jones and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative and interdisciplinary book on style shifting in Japanese brings together a wide range of perspectives and methodologies—including discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and functional linguistics—to look at a variety of types of style shifting in both spoken and written Japanese discourse. Though diverse in approach, the contributions all reflect the belief that language use is inextricably linked to both context and language structure in mutually constitutive relationships. Topics covered include shifting between "polite" and "plain" styles, the emergence of a "semi-polite" style, speakers' strategic use of gendered styles or regional dialects, shifting between different deictic expressions, and prosodic shifting. This careful and detailed examination advances our understanding of the complex phenomenon of style shifting not only in Japanese, but also more generally, and will be of interest to researchers and students in fields such as linguistics, linguistic anthropology, communication studies, and second language acquisition and teaching.
Book Synopsis Stativization of Verb Semantics in Modern Japanese by : Motoko Ezaki
Download or read book Stativization of Verb Semantics in Modern Japanese written by Motoko Ezaki and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Context, Individual Differences and Pragmatic Competence by : Naoko Taguchi
Download or read book Context, Individual Differences and Pragmatic Competence written by Naoko Taguchi and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pragmatic competence plays a key role in the era of globalization where communication across cultural boundaries is an everyday phenomenon. The ability to use language in a socially appropriate manner is critical, as lack of it may lead to cross-cultural miscommunication or cultural stereotyping. This book describes second language learners’ development of pragmatic competence. It proposes an original theoretical framework combining a pragmatics and psycholinguistics approach, and uses a variety of research instruments, both quantitative and qualitative, to describe pragmatic development over one year. Situated in a bilingual university in Japan, the study reveals patterns of change across different pragmatic abilities among Japanese learners of English. The book offers implications for SLA theories, the teaching and assessment of pragmatic competence, and intercultural communication.
Book Synopsis Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change by : Elizabeth Peterson
Download or read book Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change written by Elizabeth Peterson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse-pragmatic markers are central to everyday language, yet many aspects of their use and functions remain elusive or under-investigated. Bringing together a global team of leading scholars, this volume presents a representative showcase of work currently being conducted in the field of discourse-pragmatic variation and change, including investigations of features such as uh/um, please, sentence-final is all, and discourse-pragmatic features from a number of languages. The book emphasizes that not only have researchers answered the call to address complex issues such as cross-linguistic reliability, extending research across languages, and expanding and improving on methods and analysis, but that they continue to address perennial questions in the field of language variation and change. With sections on theoretical and methodological issues, innovative variables, and language contact situations, the volume offers a robust overview of best practices for both new and experienced researchers.
Book Synopsis Lexical Pragmatics:Teaching English Communication and Pragmatic Skills to Japanese Learners by : 川村晶彦
Download or read book Lexical Pragmatics:Teaching English Communication and Pragmatic Skills to Japanese Learners written by 川村晶彦 and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Topic Continuity in Discourse by : T. Givón
Download or read book Topic Continuity in Discourse written by T. Givón and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The functional notion of “topic” or “topicality” has suffered, traditionally, from two distinct drawbacks. First, it has remained largely ill defined or intuitively defined. And second, quite often its definition boiled down to structure-dependent circularity. This volume represents a major departure from past practices, without rejecting both their intuitive appeal and the many good results yielded by them. First, “topic” and “topicality” are re-analyzed as a scalar property, rather than as an either/or discrete prime. Second, the graded property of “topicality” is firmly connected with sensible cognitive notions culled from gestalt psychology, such as “predictability” or “continuity”. Third, we develop and utilize precise measures and quantified methods by which the property of “topicality” of clausal arguments can be studied in connected discourse, and thus be properly hinged in its rightful context, that of topic identification, maintenance and recoverability in discourse. Fourth, we show that many grammatical phenomena which used to be studied by linguists in isolation, all partake in one functional domain of grammar, that of topic identification. Finally, we demonstrate the validity of this new approach to the study of “topic” and “topicality” by applying the same text-based quantifying method to a number of typologically-diverse languages, in studying actual texts. Languages studied here are: Written and spoken English, spoken Spanish, Biblical Hebrew, Amharic, Hausa, Japanese, Chamorro and Ute.
Book Synopsis Change and Continuity in Japanese Regulation by : Ulrike Schaede
Download or read book Change and Continuity in Japanese Regulation written by Ulrike Schaede and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
