Expressive Japanese

Author : Senko K. Maynard
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824873955
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Expressive Japanese written by Senko K. Maynard and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2005-02-28 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feelings play an enormous part in our lives, but their expression is often neglected in foreign language education. How do I communicate happiness, surprise, or anger? How do others communicate these emotions to me? Such questions become increasingly relevant as we become more competent in the language we are learning. Expressive Japanese is the first detailed guide to emotion words and expressive strategies for students of the language. Words connoting feelings, such as "kanashii" (sad), are important in everyday Japanese conversation, but communicating emotions effectively also requires the use of expressive strategies, such as "Nani?" (What the heck?), "Yattaa!" (I did it!), or "Hottoite!" (Leave me alone!). Introductory chapters examine the characteristics, constraints, and history of expressive Japanese and discuss linguistic variations and styles and how these play a part in conveying emotion and empathy. There follow more than seventy entries that draw on hundreds of authentic examples taken from a variety of sources, including television dramas, comics, interviews, novels, essays, newspaper articles, and web sites. In these examples, students will find playful and creative uses of expressions that do not usually appear in language textbooks. English cues and key Japanese expressions are indexed at the back of the volume, making this a handy reference for anyone who possesses a grasp of the fundamentals of elementary Japanese. Based on extensive research by a prominent linguist and teacher, Expressive Japanese brings learners into the world of real human interaction and effectively illustrates how native speakers use language to convey identity and a sense of self as well as to communicate feelings and emotion.

Author : Natsuko Tsujimura
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498569250
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Expressing Silence written by Natsuko Tsujimura and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Expressing Silence: Where Language and Culture Meet in Japanese, Natsuko Tsujimura discusses how silence is conceptualized and linguistically represented in Japanese. Languages differ widely in the specific linguistic and rhetorical modes through which vivid depictions of silence are achieved. In Japanese, sounds in nature evoke silence, and onomatopoeia plays an important role in simulating silent scenes. These linguistic mechanisms mediate the perception of the symbiotic relationship between sound and silence, a perception deeply embedded in the Japanese cultural experience. Expressing Silence brings the tools of both linguistic and cultural analysis in examining the remarkably rich array of representations of silence in Japanese language and culture, finding that depictions of silence through language cannot be understood without exploring what sound or silence mean to the speakers.

Author : Mamiko Murakami
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 169 pages
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Download or read book Love, Hate and Everything in Between written by Mamiko Murakami and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Senko K. Maynard
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027254023
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Creativity in Japanese Discourse written by Senko K. Maynard and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Naoko Taguchi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110218542
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pragmatic Competence written by Naoko Taguchi and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the disciplines of applied linguistics and second language acquisition (SLA), the study of pragmatic competence has been driven by several fundamental questions such as: What does it mean to become pragmatically competent in a second language (L2)? This book explores these key issues in Japanese as a second/foreign language.

Author : Michael L. Maynard
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780844284965
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 101 Japanese Idioms written by Michael L. Maynard and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1993 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of colloquial Japanese expressions incorporated into dialogue or narrative. The book contains each idiom written in both romanised and Japanese form, accompanied by explanation.

Author : Basil Hall Chamberlain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Handbook of Colloquial Japanese written by Basil Hall Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce Fraser
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848553161
Total Pages : 655 pages
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Download or read book Language in Life and a Life in Language written by Bruce Fraser and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Jacob Mey is one of the most respected, enterprising, industrious, scholarly and, avuncular members of the many linguistics communities in which he has worked. This collection includes invited papers that honours Professor Mey on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.

Author : Basil Hall Chamberlain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
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Download or read book A Handbook of colloquiel Japanese written by Basil Hall Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Timothy J. Craig
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765605603
Total Pages : 376 pages
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Download or read book Japan Pop! written by Timothy J. Craig and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2000 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a look at various forms of Japanese popular culture: pop song, jazz, enka (a popular musical ballad genre), karaoke, comics, animated cartoons (anime), video games, television dramas, films, and "idols" (teenage singers and actors.) Also describes Japan social life and customs.