27.1803, Books: Fluid Orality in the Discourse of Japanese Popular Culture: Maynard

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:38:06
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Fluid Orality in the Discourse of Japanese Popular Culture: Maynard

Title: Fluid Orality in the Discourse of Japanese Popular Culture 
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 263  

Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.263 

Author: Senko K. Maynard

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027267139 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027267139 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027267139 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 80.00
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Hardback: ISBN:  9789027256683 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027256683 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 100.70

Abstract:

This volume invites the reader into the world of pragmatic and discourse
studies in Japanese popular culture. Through “character-speak”, the book
analyzes quoted speech in light (graphic) novels, the effeminate onee kotoba
in talk shows, narrative character in keetai (mobile phone) novels, floating
whispers in manga, and fictionalized dialects in television drama series.
Explorations into conversational interaction, internal monologue, rhetorical
figures, intertextuality, and the semiotic mediation between verbal and visual
signs reveal how speakers manipulate language in performing playful
“characters” and “characteristics”. Most prominent in the discourse of
Japanese popular culture is its “fluid orality”. We find the essential oral
nature in and across genres of Japanese popular culture, and observe seamless
transitions among styles and speech variations. This fluidity is understood as
a feature of polyphonic speech initiated not by the so-called ideal singular
speaker, but by a multiple and often shifting interplay of one’s speaking
selves performing as various characters. Challenging traditional (Western)
linguistic theories founded on the concept of the autonomous speaker, this
study ventures into open and embracing pragmatic and discourse studies that
inquire into the very nature of our speaking selves.

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Ling & Literature
                     Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): Japanese (jpn)

Written In: English  (eng)

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