33.22, Books: The Mysterious Address Term ''anata'' ‘you’ in Japanese: Yonezawa

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Subject: 33.22, Books: The Mysterious Address Term ''anata'' ‘you’ in Japanese: Yonezawa

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Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2022 05:41:55
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: The Mysterious Address Term ''anata'' ‘you’ in Japanese: Yonezawa

 


Title: The Mysterious Address Term "anata" ‘you’ in Japanese 
Series Title: Topics in Address Research 4  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/tar.4 


Author: Yoko Yonezawa

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027258922 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027258922 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027258922 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210500 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210500 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027210500 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 100.70


Abstract:

The use of the second person singular pronoun "anata" ‘you’ in modern Japanese
has long been regarded as mysterious and problematic, generating contradictory
nuances such as polite, impolite, intimate, and distancing. Treated as a
troublesome pronoun, scholars have searched for a semantically loaded meaning
in "anata", under the assumption that all Japanese personal reference terms
involve social indexicality. This book takes a new approach, revealing that
"anata" is in fact semantically simple and its powerful expressivity is
explained only in pragmatic terms. In doing so, the study brings to bear a
thorough understanding of key issues in pragmatics, such as common ground,
sociocultural norms, and shared understandings, in order to fully grasp the
meaning and usage of this single linguistic item. This book will be of
interest to scholars and students in a range of linguistic fields, such as
semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, anthropological
linguistics, linguistic typology, cultural linguistics, as well as applied
linguistics.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics

Subject Language(s): Japanese (jpn)


Written In: English  (eng)

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