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.
Japanese dialects • Worldview • Kokugaku philology • Kanji competence • Japanese impoliteness • Durational compensation • Complement clauses • Japanese • Linguistic landscape • Metalanguage • Phonology • Pragmatics • Finland • pitch accent • Context-driven methodology • Pitch accent • Language Education Policy • Adjectives • Teaching Japanese pronunciation • Personal pronouns • Ainu • Japanese written language • Spontaneous talk • Theory • Late Middle Japanese • Lenition • Kanji strings • Vowel devoicing • Noun incorporation • English-Japanese bilinguals • Teaching Japanese prosody • Inherent segment duration • Japanese phonetics • Discourse analysis • Italian • Relative clauses • France • Moraic isochrony • Corpus linguistics • Morphosyntax • Gender • Japanese language • Linguistic relativity • Thinking-for-Speaking • Upper secondary school • Japanese Language Education • Talmy’s typology • Teaching strategies • Pragma-linguistics • Gesture • Spoken corpora • Language criticism • Kagoshima Japanese • Multilingualism • Queer speech • Audiovisual translation • Keigo • Reading ability • Segmental Structure • Subtitling • Motion event description