nam a22 c 4500 pbns.281/880017791 nljbp 250625072052.8 cr ||||||||||| 241210s2017 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2017045996 9789027265043 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp PL524.7 495.6 23 CFG bicssc LAN009030 bisacsh Mapping Genres, Mapping Culture Japanese texts in context Edited by Elizabeth A. Thomson, Motoki Sano and Helen de Silva Joyce Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017 ©2017 1 online resource (vi, 248 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 0922-842X 281 Includes bibliographical references and index. Chapter 1. Mapping genres using systemic functional linguistics / Elizabeth A. Thomson, Helen de Silva Joyce and Motoki Sano -- Chapter 2. Exploring the structure and meaning of the family of procedural texts in Japanese / Kazue Kato -- Chapter 3. The directive genre in the Japanese workplace / Yumiko Mizusawa -- Chapter 4. The genre of exposition / Motoki Sano -- Chapter 5. An analysis of Japanese news stories / Masamichi Washitake -- Chapter 6. Wartime reports in Japanese newspapers / Noriko Iwamoto -- Chapter 7. Kundoku-bun / Katsuyuki Sato -- Chapter 8. Once upon a time / Elizabeth A. Thomson -- Chapter 9. Nihonjinron and the context of culture / Ken Tann 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. Provided by publisher. Anthropological Linguistics Discourse studies Japanese linguistics Pragmatics Thomson, Elizabeth A. editor Sano, Motoki editor Silva Joyce, Helen de editor Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017 9789027256867 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.281 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027265043