Table of contents
Chapter 1.Mapping genres using systemic functional linguistics
1
Chapter 2.Exploring the structure and meaning of the family of procedural texts in Japanese
29
Chapter 3.The directive genre in the Japanese workplace
57
Chapter 4.The genre of exposition: Persuasive rhetoric of Japanese culture
93
Chapter 5.An analysis of Japanese news stories: Generic structure and semantic formation
119
Chapter 6.Wartime reports in Japanese newspapers: Transitivity and appraisal
137
Chapter 7.Kundoku-bun: A hybrid genre in Japanese literature
169
Chapter 8.Once upon a time: Grammar, structure and meaning in a selected set of Japanese folktales
191
Chapter 9.Nihonjinron and the context of culture
213
Contributors
241
Index
243
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