Animacy and Reference

• Acknowledgments | p. xi
• List of Abbreviations | p. xiii
• List of Tables | p. xv
• List of Figures | p. xvii
• Introduction
• A. The General Animacy Scale | p. 2
• B. The Hierarchy of Persons | p. 3
• C. The Individuation Scale | p. 3
• D. Semantic Roles | p. 4
• E. Politeness | p. 5
• Chapter 1: What is ‘Animacy’? | p. 9
• 1.1 General Animacy Scale: Humanness, Animacy and Inanimacy
• 1.2 Models of the ‘Animacy Hierarchy’ and Degree of Animacy within Human Category: with Reference to the Hierarchy of Persons and the Individuation Scale
• 1.3 Concluding Remarks
• Chapter 2: What Does Animacy Do to Human Language? | p. 41
• 2.1 Overview: With Reference to Number Distinction
• 2.2 Case Marking
• 2.3 Word Order
• 2.4 Subject Selection
• 2.5 Topicality
• 2.6 Towards a Generalisation: ‘Mind-style’ and Structural Salience of Animacy
• 2.7 Concluding Remarks
• Chapter 3: Hierarchy of Persons and Animacy in English and Japanese | p. 73
• 3.1 Overview
• 3.2 Some Remarks on the Pragmatic Characteristics of the Hierarchy of Persons
• 3.3 The Japanese Person System
• 3.4 Corpus Analysis and Treatment of Noun Phrases in Texts
• 3.5 First Person
• 3.6 Second Person
• 3.7 Third Person
• 3.8 Concluding Remarks
• Chapter 4: Degree of Individuation and Encoding of Animacy | p. 131
• 4.1 Overview
• 4.2 Persons as Individuals vs. Persons as Roles
• 4.3 Organisations: Borderline Cases between Animate and Inanimate Beings
• 4.4 Concluding Remarks
• Chapter 5: Agency and Animacy | p. 147
• 5.1 Overview
• 5.2 Agency
• 5.3 Expression and Suppression of Agency and Animacy
• 5.4 Concluding Remarks
• Chapter 6: A Neverending Story of Animacy | p. 177
• 6.1 A Neverending Story of Animacy
• 6.2 Concluding Summary — Contribution to Linguistics
• Appendix: Lists of Human/Animate Noun Phrases in Corpus | p. 197
• Case Study 1: Yukio Mishima, Hyaku-man Yen Senbei (‘One Million Yen Rice Cracker’ or ‘Three Million Yen’) | p. 197
• Case Study 2: Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express | p. 206
• Case Study 3: Asahi Shinbun and Asahi Evening News | p. 215
• Case Study 4: Newsweek | p. 225
• Case Study 5: The Transactions of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers and Systems and Computers in Japan | p. 235
• Case Study 6: Scientific American | p. 244
• Case Study 7: ‘Tetsuko no Heya’ | p. 253
• Case Study 8: Viewpoints | p. 261
• Index | p. 269

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