Linguistic Emotivity

Centrality of place, the topic-comment dynamic, and an ideology of pathos in Japanese discourse

Senko K. Maynard | Rutgers University

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Linguistic Emotivity explores expressive and emotive meanings in Japanese from the perspective of the Place of Negotiation theory. The Place of Negotiation theory provides a framework for understanding how linguistic signs function in the place of communication (in cognitive, emotive, and interactional places). The theory finds the indexicality of a sign fundamental and views meanings as being negotiated among interactants who share not only information but, more significantly, feelings.
Using analytical tools recognized in conversation and discourse analyses, the book analyzes emotive topics (vocatives, emotive nominals, quotative topics, etc.) and emotive comments (da and ja-nai, interrogatives, stylistic shifts, etc.) in contemporary Japanese discourse. It argues for the importance of emotivity in Japanese, in the context of the Japanese culture of pathos. Linguistic Emotivity challenges the traditional view of language that privileges logos, form, information, and abstraction, and instead, it proposes a philosophical shift toward pathos, expression, emotion, and linguistic event/action.

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 97] 2002. xiv, 481 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 January 2003

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.97

Table of Contents

Preface and ackowledgments | p. xi

Part 1. Preliminaries

1. Introduction: Language, emotivity, and pathos | pp. 3–20

2. Background: Emotion, expressive function, and culture | pp. 21–49

Part 2. Theory

3. The Place of Negotiation theory | pp. 53–72

4. The (re-)turn to place | pp. 73–84

5. Locating and interpreting emotive meanings | pp. 85–99

6. Topic–comment, futaku, and the Rhetoric of Pathos | pp. 101–121

Part 3. Emotive topics

7. Vocatives and topics | pp. 123–147

8. Emotive nominals | pp. 149–163

9. Quotative topics | pp. 165–190

10. Emotive nan(i) ‘what’ | pp. 191–213

Part 4. Emotive comments

11. Da and ja-nai as commentary strategies | pp. 217–245

12. Interrogatives as emotive comments | pp. 247–275

13. Commenting through stylistic shifts | pp. 277–304

Part 5. Pathos in Japanese discourse

14. Analyzing expressions of pathos in Oda Nobunaga | pp. 307–335

15. Rhetoric of Pathos in Mini-Jihyoo newspaper articles | pp. 337–355

16. Playing with pathos: Presentation and negotiation of selves in Long Vacation | pp. 357–389

Part 6. Reflections

17. Linguistic emotivity and the culture of pathos | pp. 393–407

18. Language, linguistic theory, and ideology | pp. 409–417

Appendix: Information on select data | pp. 419–421

Notes | pp. 423–434

Author index | pp. 465–468

Subject index | pp. 469–476

“ Linguistic Emotivity makes a valuable contribution to the project of shifting the focus in modern linguistics from a narrow conception of language to one that is more inclusive.”

Joanne Scheibman, Old Dominion University, USA, in Functions of Language Vol. 13:1 (2006)

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