Japanese Language in Use

An Introduction
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9352-1
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Companion textbook to Japanese Linguistics: An Introduction
- Includes exercises, examples and further reading and uses a wide range of authentic Japanese texts
- Japanese linguistics is a minor or option course for undergraduates as well as being taught as an MA or a component of a taught PhD.

Japanese Language in Use is the companion volume to Japanese Linguistics: An Introduction. Using a wide range of examples drawn from everyday life and literary texts, Japanese Language in Use introduces pragmatics, discourse, and language and culture in the Japanese context. The book covers:

- Language in context
- Japanese in conversation
- Honorifics and politeness
- Language and gender
- Young people's language

Key concepts of Japanese language in use are introduced in a succinct and accessible way, with texts and exercises to aid student understanding. This is the ideal first introduction to Japanese language in context for undergraduate or postgraduate students.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Upper Level Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yamaguchi, Toshiko

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgements
How to Use This Book
1. Pragmatics: Explictness
1.1 Explanation
1.2 Judgement
1.3 Order and Request
2. Pragmatics: Implicitness
2.1 Reference
2.2 Co-Text
2.3 Context
2.4 Implicatures
2.5 Figure of Speech
3. Discourse
3.1 Coherence
3.2 Cohesion
3.3 Conjunctions
3.4 Clausal Linkage
3.5 ?
3.6 Sentence-Final Forms
3.7 Ellipsis
3.8 What is Ellipsis?
3.9 When ? Becomes Overt?
4. Language and Culture
4.1 Gender
4.2 In-Groups and Out-Groups
4.3 Honorifics
4.4 Young People
5. Radio Talk

5.1 Opening a Talk
5.2 Closing a Talk
5.3 Maintaining a Talk
5.4 Conversational Strategies
5.5 Talk II
5.6 Transcribed Talk 1
References
English Index
Japanese Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Toshiko Yamaguchi is visiting Lecturer at the National University of Singapore. She is the author of Japanese Linguistics: An Introduction, also published by Continuum.