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Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2020 22:02:38
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: Handbook of Japanese Semantics and Pragmatics: Jacobsen, Takubo (eds.)

 


Title: Handbook of Japanese Semantics and Pragmatics 
Series Title: Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics [HJLL]  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://bit.ly/35FmtdM 


Editor: Wesley M. Jacobsen
Editor: Yukinori Takubo

Hardback: ISBN:  9781614512882 Pages: 843 Price: U.S. $ 343.99


Abstract:

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 influential in 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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Philosophy of Language
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Japanese (jpn)


Written In: English  (eng)

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