Scripting Japan: Orthography, Variation, and the Creation of Meaning in Written Japanese

ISBN-13: 9780367353728 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 210 str.

Wesley C. Robertson

Opis

This monograph provides the first investigation into the ways these authors and their readers engage with script variation as a social language practice, looking at how purely script-based language choices influence the ultimate meaning created by language acts.

Spis treści

1. Scripting Japan  2. Graphic Play as a Social Act: Indexicality and Orthographic Variation  3. Scripted Speech and Scripted Speakers: Katakana and Non-Native Japanese  4. Scripted Voices: Contrasted Identities and Contrasting Standards  5. Script Choice and Pronoun Choice: Indexical Fields in Interaction  6. Using Katakana like an Oyaji: Script Variation and Authorial Identity  7. The Social Lives of Japanese Scripts

O autorze

Wesley C. Robertson is Lecturer in International Studies at Macquarie University, Australia. His research focuses on variation and language play inherent in writing, with a focus on Japanese. He completed his PhD in Applied Japanese Linguistics at Monash University in 2016.