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The Language of Food in Japanese: Cognitive perspectives and beyond

Edited by Kiyoko Toratani

Many studies on the language of food examine English or adopt discourse analysis. This volume makes a fresh attempt to analyze Japanese, focusing on non-discursive units. It offers state-of-the-art data-oriented studies, including methods of analysis in line with Cognitive Linguistics. It… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 25] 2022. x, 347 pp.

Involvement and Attitude in Japanese Discourse: Interactive markers

Naomi Ogi

This book addresses the long discussed issue of Japanese interactive markers (traditionally called sentence-final particles) in a new light, and provides the comprehensive linguistic documentation of the interactional functions of seven interactive markers: ne, na, yo, sa, wa, zo and ze. By… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 272] 2017. xi, 232 pp.

A Cognitive Grammar of Japanese Clause Structure

Toshiyuki Kumashiro

This volume represents the first comprehensive work on Japanese clause structure conducted within the framework of Cognitive Grammar. The author proposes schematic conceptual structures for the major constructions in the language and defines Japanese case marking and grammatical relations in purely… read more

[Human Cognitive Processing, 53] 2016. xxiii, 373 pp.

Sequential Voicing in Japanese: Papers from the NINJAL Rendaku Project

Edited by Timothy J. Vance and Mark Irwin

The papers in this tightly focused collection all report recent research on aspects of rendaku (‘sequential voicing’), the well-known morphophonemic phenomenon in Japanese that affects initial consonants of non-initial elements in complex words (mostly compounds). The papers include… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 176] 2016. ix, 279 pp.

Usage-based Approaches to Japanese Grammar: Towards the understanding of human language

Edited by Kaori Kabata and Tsuyoshi Ono

This volume brings together papers that take usage-based approaches to study the nature of human language, with a focus on the grammar of Japanese. The 12 chapters provide a rich array of data and methodologies, with topics ranging from phonology, modality, and grammatical morphemes, to sentential… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 156] 2014. ix, 308 pp.

Japanese: Revised edition

Shoichi Iwasaki

Japanese ranks as the ninth most widely spoken language of the world with more than 127 million speakers in the island state of Japan. Its genetic relation has been a topic of heated discussion, but Altaic and Austronesian languages appear to have contributed to the early formation of this language. read more

[London Oriental and African Language Library, 17] 2013. xxi, 383 pp.

Conversational Storytelling among Japanese Women: Conversational circumstances, social circumstances and tellability of stories

Mariko Karatsu

This book presents research findings on the overall process of storytelling as a social event in Japanese everyday conversations focusing on the relationship between a story and surrounding talks, the social and cultural aspects of the participants, and the tellability of conversational stories.… read more

[Studies in Narrative, 16] 2012. ix, 225 pp.

Loanwords in Japanese

Mark Irwin

Loanwords in Japanese is the first monograph in a Western language to offer a systematic and coherent overview of the vast number of words borrowed into Japanese since the mid-16th century. Its publication is timely given the fact that the loanword stratum’s recent exponential growth has given rise… read more

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 125] 2011. xix, 276 pp.