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Title Mapping genres, mapping culture : Japanese texts in context / edited by Elizabeth A. Thomson, Charles Sturt University ; Motoki Sano, NLU, Google Japan ; Helen de Silva Joyce, Charles Sturt University
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 248 pages)
Series Pragmatics & beyond new series (P & BNS), 0922-842X ; volume 281
Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 281
Pragmatics & beyond
Contents Mapping genres using systemic functional linguistics / Elizabeth A. Thomson, Helen de Silva Joyce & Motoki Sano -- Exploring the structure and meaning of the family of procedural texts in Japanese / Kazue Kato -- The directive genre in the Japanese workplace / Yumiko Mizusawa -- The genre of exposition: persuasive rhetoric of Japanese culture / Motoki Sano -- An analysis of Japanese news stories: generic structure and semantic formation / Masamichi Washitake -- Wartime reports in Japanese newspapers: transitivity and appraisal / Noriko Iwamoto -- Kundoku-bun: a hybrid genre in Japanese literature / Katsuyuki Sato -- Once upon a time: grammar, structure and meaning in a selected set of Japanese folktales / Elizabeth A. Thomson -- Nihonjinron and the context of culture / Ken Tann
Summary The purpose of this book is to contribute to our understanding of genre and genre variation in the Japanese language in order to bring to consciousness the nature of Japanese culture and the presuppositions, norms and values found within Japanese society. This type of knowledge enables interventions and agency, as knowing how language works within a culture makes it possible to consciously accept it or to influence and shape it into the future. The various chapters seek to explore social contexts and the norms, values and practices of Japanese culture through the language choices in analysed texts in literature, education, the workplace and in print-based media. These genres collectively form part of the cultural fabric of Japan. The book represents a first step in documenting a selected set of Japanese genres from a social semiotic perspective. It will be of interest to students and scholars in a wide range of linguistic fields, such as Japanese descriptive linguistics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics and applied linguistics. It should also appeal to teachers and learners of Japanese and to media commentators, students of literature, cultural studies and journalism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 03, 2018)
Subject Japanese language -- Variation -- Japan
Language and culture -- Japan
Japanese language -- Social aspects
Mass media -- Japan
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Southeast Asian Languages.
Japanese language -- Social aspects
Japanese language -- Variation
Language and culture
Mass media
Japan
Form Electronic book
Author Thomson, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Anne), 1961- editor.
Sano, Motoki, 1980- editor.
De Silva Joyce, Helen, editor
LC no. 2017045996
ISBN 9789027265043
9027265046