European Approaches to Japanese Language and Linguistics
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abstract
In this volume European specialists of Japanese language present new and original research into Japanese language over a wide spectrum of topics which include descriptive, sociolinguistic, pragmatic and didactic accounts. The articles share a focus on contemporary issues and adopt new approaches to the study of Japanese that often are specific to European traditions of language study. The articles address an audience that includes both Japanese Studies and Linguistics. They are representative of the wide range of topics that are currently studied in European universities, and they address scholars and students alike.
Durational compensation • English-Japanese bilinguals • Segmental Structure • Kagoshima Japanese • Teaching strategies • Finland • Linguistic landscape • Corpus linguistics • Talmy’s typology • Italian • Japanese dialects • Keigo • Pragmatics • Theory • Language criticism • Discourse analysis • Queer speech • Pragma-linguistics • Context-driven methodology • Kanji strings • Motion event description • Spoken corpora • Worldview • Subtitling • Teaching Japanese prosody • Gender • Japanese written language • Gesture • Pitch accent • Adjectives • Morphosyntax • Metalanguage • Multilingualism • Phonology • Vowel devoicing • Upper secondary school • Japanese Language Education • Reading ability • Linguistic relativity • Personal pronouns • Ainu • Language Education Policy • Kanji competence • Japanese • Late Middle Japanese • Japanese impoliteness • Lenition • Thinking-for-Speaking • Noun incorporation • Teaching Japanese pronunciation • France • Moraic isochrony • Japanese language • Kokugaku philology • pitch accent • Japanese phonetics • Complement clauses • Relative clauses • Inherent segment duration • Audiovisual translation • Spontaneous talk