Endangered Compound Prosody In Kansai Japanese

Author : Andrew Angeles
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004677647

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Endangered Compound Prosody in Kansai Japanese by Andrew Angeles Pdf

This book examines the diverse prosody of compound nouns in Kansai Japanese, with a special focus on a class of compounds with particularly variable prosody, whose unique prosody is potentially endangered due to their structure and influence from Tokyo Japanese. These compounds serve as important evidence for recursion in prosodic structure in theories of the syntax-prosody interface, as they simultaneously resemble not only other compound words but also non-compound phrases, making them valuable test cases for compound prosodic structure. This book discusses potential reasons for these compounds' prosodic variabilty and what may condition their unique prosody, based on results from novel fieldwork. A unified account of compound prosody in Kansai and three other Japanese dialects is also presented.

Author : Haruo Kubozono
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110730074

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Word and Sentence Prosody by Haruo Kubozono Pdf

This is the first comprehensive work on word and sentence prosody in Koshikijima Japanese, a dialect of Japanese not fully documented in the literature. It is an endangered dialect spoken by about 2,000 speakers on a small southern island in Japan. Being separated from mainland dialects by the sea, this dialect exhibits unique prosodic features not shared by other Japanese dialects. It also exhibits considerable regional variations among the ten or more small villages that were isolated from each other until recently. Based on the author’s fieldwork, the book analyzes word accent and intonation, the two linguistic areas in which this endangered dialect exhibits unique features and remarkable regional variations within itself. They include the emergence and development of a secondary H tone, postlexical deletion of the primary H tone, and the L boundary tone in question and vocative intonation. These phenomena bear crucially on general issues in prosody, including postlexical tonal neutralizations, competitions between lexical and postlexical tones, and the number of tones that a syllable can maximally bear. The book thus demonstrates the relevance of studying an endangered language/dialect in general linguistic contexts.

Author : Haruo Kubozono
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Japanese language
ISBN : UOM:39015041950042

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The Organization of Japanese Prosody by Haruo Kubozono Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789004290006

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Hanvueng: The Goose King and the Ancestral King by Anonim Pdf

The Hanvueng epic, a narrative of enmity between two royal step-brothers, is a ritual text recited when there is fraternal feuding, death by violence, outbreaks of smallpox, or other such disasters. The theme is one that resonates deeply in the Tai societies on the periphery of the Chinese empire.

Author : Gordian Schreiber
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004504936

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Japanese Morphography by Gordian Schreiber Pdf

In Japanese Morphography, Gordian Schreiber takes an in-depth look at texts from pre-modern Japan written exclusively in Chinese characters as morphograms and demonstrates why the language behind the script is, in fact, to be identified as Japanese rather than Chinese.

Author : Yoko Hasegawa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1316636410

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The Cambridge Handbook of Japanese Linguistics by Yoko Hasegawa Pdf

The linguistic study of Japanese, with its rich syntactic and phonological structure, complex writing system, and diverse sociohistorical context, is a rapidly growing research area. This book, designed to serve as a concise reference for researchers interested in the Japanese language and in typological studies of language in general, explores diverse characteristics of Japanese that are particularly intriguing when compared with English and other European languages. It pays equal attention to the theoretical aspects and empirical phenomena from theory-neutral perspectives, and presents necessary theoretical terms in clear and easy language. It consists of five thematic parts including sound system and lexicon, grammatical foundation and constructions, and pragmatics/sociolinguistics topics, with chapters that survey critical discussions arising in Japanese linguistics. The Cambridge Handbook of Japanese Linguistics will be welcomed by general linguists, and students and scholars working in linguistic typology, Japanese language, Japanese linguistics and Asian Studies.

Author : Arthur Cooper
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004369054

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The Other Greek by Arthur Cooper Pdf

Etymology as the principle of Chinese writing -- Introducing Chinese characters -- Deerpark hermitage -- River snow: part one-the other Greek -- River snow: part two-word-building -- River snow: part three-rhythm -- Windows -- Stars and seething pots -- The ballad of the ancient cypress -- On releasing a wild goose -- Ware, ware, snares for hares -- "The way": Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu -- When I was green -- Snow and plum -- Farewell to the god of plagues

Author : Wesley M. Jacobsen,Yukinori Takubo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1183 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781501501050

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Handbook of Japanese Semantics and Pragmatics by Wesley M. Jacobsen,Yukinori Takubo Pdf

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.

Author : Beata Świtek
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1800730160

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Reluctant Intimacies by Beata Świtek Pdf

Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan and Indonesia, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers’ relationships with the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues, and their employers. Through the notion of intimacy, the book brings together sociological and anthropological scholarship on the body, migration, demographic change, and eldercare in a vivid account of societal transformation. Placed against the background of mass media representations, the Indonesian workers’ experiences serve as a basis for discussion of the role of bodily experience in shaping the image of a national “other” in Japan.

Author : Charles Bazerman,Adair Bonini
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781643170015

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Genre in a Changing World by Charles Bazerman,Adair Bonini Pdf

Genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction continue to develop in many regions and from a widening variety of approaches. Genre has provided a key to understanding the varying literacy cultures of regions, disciplines, professions, and educational settings. GENRE IN A CHANGING WORLD provides a wide-ranging sampler of the remarkable variety of current work. The twenty-four chapters in this volume, reflecting the work of scholars in Europe, Australasia, and North and South America, were selected from the over 400 presentations at SIGET IV (the Fourth International Symposium on Genre Studies) held on the campus of UNISUL in Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil in August 2007—the largest gathering on genre to that date. The chapters also represent a wide variety of approaches, including rhetoric, Systemic Functional Linguistics, media and critical cultural studies, sociology, phenomenology, enunciation theory, the Geneva school of educational sequences, cognitive psychology, relevance theory, sociocultural psychology, activity theory, Gestalt psychology, and schema theory. Sections are devoted to theoretical issues, studies of genres in the professions, studies of genre and media, teaching and learning genre, and writing across the curriculum. The broad selection of material in this volume displays the full range of contemporary genre studies and sets the ground for a next generation of work.

Author : Helen J. Baroni
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791481011

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Iron Eyes by Helen J. Baroni Pdf

Iron Eyes focuses on the Japanese Zen master Tetsugen Doko (1630–1682), the best-known exponent of Ōbaku in Japan and the West. Ōbaku Zen arose during the seventeenth century and became the third major Zen sect in Japan. Ōbaku monks encouraged the laity to deepen their knowledge of and commitment to Buddhism. Tetsugen is credited with producing the first complete wood block edition of the Chinese Buddhist scriptures in Japan. Legend has it that Tetsugen had to raise the money for the project three times: twice his great compassion led him to give away the money he had raised to the starving victims of natural disasters. This Zen story is well-known in Japan and has gained popularity among contemporary Buddhists in the West. The first part of this book offers an introduction and a series of analytical chapters describing Tetsugen's life, work, and teachings, as well as the legends related to him. The second part comprises annotated translations of his major teaching texts, important letters and other historical documents, a selection of his poetry, and several traditional biographies.

Author : Haruo Kubozono,Mikio Giriko
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110567502

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Tonal Change and Neutralization by Haruo Kubozono,Mikio Giriko Pdf

No book has ever been published on tonal change and neutralization, two closely related topics in tonal phonology. This will be the first book to be devoted to both.The articles collected in this volume analyze a wide range of data concerning tonal change and neutralization, including post-lexical neutralization which represents a new topic in prosodic research. The volume as a whole covers a wide range of tone and pitch-accent languages in Asia, Africa and Europe, with a main focus on Asian languages/dialects many of which are endangered now. In addition to presenting novel data and analyses about individual languages, it provides typological perspectives on tonal change and neutralization.This volume will serve as an indispensable source of data and analyses for a wide range of linguists interested in phonetics, phonology, prosody, historical linguistics, language typology, endangered languages, Japanese linguistics, and Chinese linguistics.

Author : Haruo Kubozono
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191071102

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The Phonetics and Phonology of Geminate Consonants by Haruo Kubozono Pdf

This book is the first volume specifically devoted to the phonetics and phonology of geminate consonants, a feature of many of the world's languages including Arabic, Bengali, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Malayalam, Persian, Saami, Swiss German, and Turkish. While the contrast between geminate and singleton consonants has been widely studied, the phonetic manifestation and phonological nature of geminate consonants, as well as their cross-linguistic similarities and differences, are not fully understood. The volume brings together original data and novel analyses of geminate consonants in a variety of languages across the world. Experts in the field present a wide range of approaches to the study of phonological contrasts in general by introducing various experimental and non-experimental methodologies; they also discuss phonological contrasts in a wider context and examine the behaviour of geminate consonants in loanword phonology and language acquisition. The volume takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on experimental phonetics, theoretical phonology, speech processing, neurolinguistics, and language acquisition.

Author : Aleksandr Arkadʹevich Dolin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Japanese poetry
ISBN : CUB:U183050760341

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The Silver Age of Japanese Poetry by Aleksandr Arkadʹevich Dolin Pdf

Author : Shôyô Tsubouchi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Fiction
ISBN : OCLC:695168098

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The Essence of the Novel by Shôyô Tsubouchi Pdf