Pragmatics Of Japanese


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Pragmatics Of Japanese


Pragmatics Of Japanese
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Author : Mutsuko Endo Hudson
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2018-04-15

Pragmatics Of Japanese written by Mutsuko Endo Hudson and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


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.



Handbook Of Japanese Semantics And Pragmatics


Handbook Of Japanese Semantics And Pragmatics
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Author : Wesley M. Jacobsen
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-10-12

Handbook Of Japanese Semantics And Pragmatics written by Wesley M. Jacobsen and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-12 with Foreign Language Study categories.


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.



Pragmatics Of Japanese As Native And Target Language


Pragmatics Of Japanese As Native And Target Language
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Author : Gabriele Kasper
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 1992

Pragmatics Of Japanese As Native And Target Language written by Gabriele Kasper and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Foreign Language Study categories.




Pragmatic Competence


Pragmatic Competence
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Author : Naoko Taguchi
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2009-09-04

Pragmatic Competence written by Naoko Taguchi and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


In the disciplines of applied linguistics and second language acquisition (SLA), the study of pragmatic competence has been driven by several fundamental questions: What does it mean to become pragmatically competent in a second language (L2)? How can we examine pragmatic competence to make inference of its development among L2 learners? In what ways do research findings inform teaching and assessment of pragmatic competence? This book explores these key issues in Japanese as a second/foreign language. The book has three sections. The first section offers a general overview and historical sketch of the study of Japanese pragmatics and its influence on Japanese pedagogy and curriculum. The overview chapter is followed by eight empirical findings, each dealing with phenomena that are significant in Japanese pragmatics. They target selected features of Japanese pragmatics and investigate the learners' use of them as an indicator of their pragmatic competence. The target pragmatic features are wide-ranging, among them honorifics, speech style, sentence final particles, speech acts of various types, and indirect expressions. Each study explicitly prompts the connection between pragmalinguistics (linguistic forms available to perform language functions) and sociopragmatics (norms that determine appropriate use of the forms) in Japanese. By documenting the understanding and use of them among learners of Japanese spanning multiple levels and time durations, this book offers insight about the nature and development of pragmatic competence, as well as implications for the learning and teaching of Japanese pragmatics. The last section presents a critical reflection on the eight empirical papers and prompts a discussion of the practice of Japanese pragmatics research.



Formal Approaches To Semantics And Pragmatics


Formal Approaches To Semantics And Pragmatics
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Author : Elin McCready
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-08-26

Formal Approaches To Semantics And Pragmatics written by Elin McCready and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


This volume presents an exploration of a wide variety of new formal methods from computer science, biology and economics that have been applied to problems in semantics and pragmatics in recent years. Many of the contributions included focus on data from East Asian languages, particularly Japanese and Korean. The collection reflects on a range of new empirical issues that have arisen, including issues related to preference, evidentiality and attention. Separated into several sections, the book presents discussions on: information structure, speech acts and decisions, philosophical themes in semantics and new formal approaches to semantic and pragmatic theory. Its overarching theme is the relation between different kinds of content, from a variety of perspectives. The discussions presented are both theoretically innovative and empirically motivated.



Bonding Through Context


Bonding Through Context
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Author : Risako Ide
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2020-12-15

Bonding Through Context written by Risako Ide and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


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.



Soliloquy In Japanese And English


Soliloquy In Japanese And English
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Author : Yoko Hasegawa
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2010

Soliloquy In Japanese And English written by Yoko Hasegawa and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


Language is recognized as an instrument of communication and thought. Under the shadow of prevailing investigation of language as a communicative means, its function as a tool for thinking has long been neglected in empirical research, vis-a-vis philosophical discussions. Language manifests itself differently when there is no interlocutor to communicate and interact. How is it similar and how does it differ in these two situations communication and thought? "Soliloquy in Japanese and English" analyzes experimentally-obtained soliloquy data in Japanese and in English and explores the potential utility of such data for delving into this uncharted territory. It deals with five topics in which elimination from discourse of an addressee is particularly relevant and significant. Four are derived from Japanese: the sentence-final particles "ne" and "yo," deixis and anaphora, gendered speech, linguistic politeness; the fifth topic is the use of the second person pronoun "you" in soliloquy in English."



Japanese At Work


Japanese At Work
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Author : Haruko Minegishi Cook
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-04-06

Japanese At Work written by Haruko Minegishi Cook and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


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.



The Pragmatics Of Uncertainty


The Pragmatics Of Uncertainty
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Author : 田中典子
language : en
Publisher: 春風社
Release Date : 2001-03

The Pragmatics Of Uncertainty written by 田中典子 and has been published by 春風社 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.




The Japanese Sentence Final Particles In Talk In Interaction


The Japanese Sentence Final Particles In Talk In Interaction
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Author : Hideki Saigo
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2011

The Japanese Sentence Final Particles In Talk In Interaction written by Hideki Saigo and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


The Japanese sentence-final particles, "ne," "yo" and "yone" have proved notoriously difficult to explain and are especially challenging for second language users. This book investigates the role of the particles in talk-in-interaction with the aim of providing a comprehensive understanding that accounts for their pragmatic properties and sequential functions and that provides a sound basis for second language pedagogy. This study starts by setting up an original particle function hypothesis based on the figure/ground "gestalt," and then tests its validity empirically with unmarked, marked and native/non-native talk-in-interaction data. The analysis illustrates not only expectable but also unexpected or strategic use of particles, as well as the problems posed for native speakers by non-native speakers whose use of particles is idiosyncratic. The study demonstrates that the proposed hypothesis is capable of accounting for all the uses of particles in the extensive and varied data set examined. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in pragmatics and CA and to teachers of Japanese as a foreign language.