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Cleft Constructions in Japanese Syntax
ISBN: 9781403912350 / Angielski / Twarda / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cleft constructions occur across languages and are much analyzed in relation to syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Mika Kizu, working in a Principles and Parameters framework, with some consideration of the Minimalist Program, provides the first coherent account of cleft constructions in Japanese. She claims that the construction is analyzed on a par with topic constructions and some types of relative clause. One of the most interesting properties, the syntactic phenomenon of 'connectivity' is closely examined.
Cleft constructions occur across languages and are much analyzed in relation to syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Mika Kizu, working in a Principles a...
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412,92 |
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Differential Use of Reactive Tokens in Japanese In Turn Management and by Gender
ISBN: 9781581123548 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study investigated the distribution of Reactive Tokens in natural conversation by male and female speakers of Japanese. According to Clancy et al. a reactive token (RT) is "a short utterance produced by an interlocutor who is playing a listener's role during the other interlocutor's speakership" (1996, p. 355). Clancy et al. classify RTs into five types: backchannels, reactive expressions, collaborative finishes, repetitions, and resumptive openers. This study investigated the distribution of these five types of RTs. In particular, it studied their use in turn management and their...
This study investigated the distribution of Reactive Tokens in natural conversation by male and female speakers of Japanese. According to Clancy et al...
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203,18 |
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Japanese the Manga Way: An Illustrated Guide to Grammar and Structure
ISBN: 9781880656907 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Japanese difficult? Study boring? No way Not with this "real manga, real Japanese" approach to learning. Presenting all spoken Japanese as a variation of three basic sentence types, Japanese the Manga Way shows how to build complex constructions step by step. Every grammar point is illustrated by an actual manga published in Japan to show how the language is used in real life, an approach that is entertaining and memorable. As an introduction, as a jump-start for struggling students, or (with its index) as a reference and review for veterans, Japanese the Manga... Japanese difficult? Study boring? No way Not with this "real manga, real Japanese" approach to learning. Presenting all spoken Japanese as ... |
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92,87 |
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Voicing in Japanese
ISBN: 9783110186000 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a number of studies which focus on the voice] grammar of Japanese, paying particular attention to historical background, dialectal diversity, phonetic experiment, and phonological analysis. Both voicing processes in consonants (such as Sequential Voicing, or Rendaku) and vowels (such as vowel devoicing) are examined. A number of new analyses are presented, focusing on well-known data that have been controversial in phonological debate in the past, but also presenting new (or rediscovered) data, partly through the work of Japanese scholars that hitherto went mostly...
This book presents a number of studies which focus on the voice] grammar of Japanese, paying particular attention to historical background, dialectal...
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1001,88 |
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Reading Japanese with a Smile: Nine Stories from a Japanese Weekly Magazine for Intermediate Learners
ISBN: 9784990284817 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learning to read Japanese is a little like running a marathon: it is a long, drawn out process, and it can get a little boring along the way. What we learners of Japanese need is a little fun now and then, something that brings a smile to our faces. As luck would have it, this book does just that. This magic trick is accomplished by the book's nine curious stories. Taken from the weekly magazine "Shukan Asahi," these stories, while true to life, verge on the hard to believe, and that's what evokes the magic element of fun.
But that's not all. Each story is accompanied by a translation,... Learning to read Japanese is a little like running a marathon: it is a long, drawn out process, and it can get a little boring along the way. What we ...
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132,56 |
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Classical Japanese: A Grammar: Exercise Answers and Tables
ISBN: 9780231135306 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Always the first to respond to a crisis, Medecins Sans Frontieres and its sister organization Medecins du Monde have set into place a style of humanitarian action that combines rapid intervention with invaluable critical assessment. Whether the crisis is war, famine, or a natural diaster, these organizations have set a precedent for humanitarian action that has yet to be surpassed. Their efforts were not developed in a vacuum. A close look at the history of humanitarianism, especially within the United States, Great Britain, and Switzerland, reveals the existing forms of action that MSF, MDM,...
Always the first to respond to a crisis, Medecins Sans Frontieres and its sister organization Medecins du Monde have set into place a style of humanit...
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106,89 |
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A Psycholinguistic Perspective on Finnish and Japanese Prosody
ISBN: 9780792372165 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this monograph Katsura Aoyama presents a series of psycholinguistic investigations on consonantal distinctions in Finnish and Japanese. The author deftly describes differences in adult production, perception, and child acquisition of these distinctions. This is an important work for those interested in recent developments in theoretical and psycholinguistics.
In this monograph Katsura Aoyama presents a series of psycholinguistic investigations on consonantal distinctions in Finnish and Japanese. The author ...
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547,14 |
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Koguryo: The Language of Japan’s Continental Relatives: An Introduction to the Historical-Comparative Study of the Japanese-Koguryoic Languages, with a Preliminary Description of Archaic Northeastern
ISBN: 9789004160255 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first in-depth study of the extinct Koguryo language, which was once spoken in Manchuria and northern Korea. It covers the ethnolinguistic history of the Koguryo nation, philological treatment of the sources for the language, Koguryo phonology, and a complete glossary of all Archaic Koguryo and Old Koguryo words. Special attention has been given to the theory and practice of lexically-based historical-comparative linguistics. The genetic relationship of Koguryo to Japanese is shown to be secure, unlike the non-relationship of either language to Korean or Altaic, and much light is...
This is the first in-depth study of the extinct Koguryo language, which was once spoken in Manchuria and northern Korea. It covers the ethnolinguistic...
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1034,42 |
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The Languages of Japan and Korea
ISBN: 9780415462877 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Languages of Japan and Korea provides detailed descriptions of the major varieties of languages in the region, both modern and pre-modern, within a common format, producing a long-needed introductory reference source. Korean, Japanese, Ainu, and representative members of the main groupings of the Ryukyuan chain are discussed for the first time in great detail in a single work. The volume is divided into language sketches, the majority of which are broken down into sections on phonology, orthography, morphology, syntax and lexicon. Specific emphasis is placed on aspects of syntactic...
The Languages of Japan and Korea provides detailed descriptions of the major varieties of languages in the region, both modern and pre-modern, within ...
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2640,18 |
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Using Japanese: A Guide to Contemporary Usage
ISBN: 9780521641555 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a guide to Japanese usage for students who have acquired the basics of the language and wish to extend their knowledge. Unlike conventional grammars, it gives special attention to those areas of vocabulary and grammar that cause the most difficulty to English speakers. Careful consideration is given throughout to questions of style, register, and politeness, and there are sections on social rituals such as greetings, introductions and apologies. Clear, readable and easy to consult, with two indexes (Japanese and English), this is an essential reference for learners seeking access to...
This is a guide to Japanese usage for students who have acquired the basics of the language and wish to extend their knowledge. Unlike conventional gr...
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482,50 |
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Case Study in Diachronic Phonology: The Japanese Onbin Sound Changes
ISBN: 9788772884899 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This publication is a large-scale application of Henning Andersen's theory of language and language change; a theory built on both C.S. Pierce's semiotic conceptual apparatus and the structural lingustics of Roman Jakobson, including his particular theory of distinctive features.
This publication is a large-scale application of Henning Andersen's theory of language and language change; a theory built on both C.S. Pierce's semio...
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79,91 |
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Book Method Japanese Kanji Writing: Japanese Kanji Self-Learning Method
ISBN: 9782700503555 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Helps you learn the fundamentals of writing the characters of traditional Japan, borrowed from Chinese (Kanji). This book lists each Kanji with its radical, its number of strokes, the different pronunciations of the character, and its meaning. It includes appendices such as the Table of Radicals, and the Index listing Kanji by number of strokes.
Helps you learn the fundamentals of writing the characters of traditional Japan, borrowed from Chinese (Kanji). This book lists each Kanji with its ra...
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122,87 |
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The Lexical Field of Taste
ISBN: 9780521445351 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this extraordinary new work, Dr. Backhouse undertakes a semantic study of taste terms in modern spoken Japanese. Through an investigation of the range of vocabulary available for the description of taste qualities, and their interrelationship in terms of meaning, Dr. Backhouse presents a sensitive elucidation of the structure of Japanese taste terms, which has significant implications for anthropological linguistics. He explores important semantic issues, such as the relationship between evaluative and descriptive meaning, the intralinguistic mechanisms at work in metaphor, and draws...
In this extraordinary new work, Dr. Backhouse undertakes a semantic study of taste terms in modern spoken Japanese. Through an investigation of the ra...
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487,31 |
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Argument Encoding in Japanese Conversation
ISBN: 9781403937056 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Japanese is well known for its array of argument encoding types - but how is speakers' choice of encoding types to be described? This book investigates the encoding of subject and direct object in conversational Japanese and attempts to explain Japanese argument encoding as a unified system. Qualitative and quantitative analyses of a bank of conversation are provided, with the emphasis on speakers' use of the encoding types rather than their acceptability for given arguments.
Japanese is well known for its array of argument encoding types - but how is speakers' choice of encoding types to be described? This book investigate...
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412,92 |
Japan's Built-In Lexicon of English-Based Loanwords
ISBN: 9781847690302 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout the world, the mother tongue fundamentally affects second language acquisition. Japanese contains thousands of loanwords, many based on the most useful types of English vocabulary. This book examines gairaigo -- Western loanwords in Japanese -- and its effect on L2 English acquisition. The first part introduces Japanese lexical borrowing. The second part resolves the "paradox of cognates" and clarifies the effect of gairaigo on English acquisition. The third part assesses the loanword cognates in Japanese that correspond to high-frequency and academic English. The fourth part... Throughout the world, the mother tongue fundamentally affects second language acquisition. Japanese contains thousands of loanwords, many based on ... |
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507,47 |
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Japanese Sentence Processing
ISBN: 9780805811254 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text presents the results of the International Symposium on Japanese Sentence Structure held at Duke University. It provided an opportunity for researchers from both Japan and the US to discuss issues concerning Japanese syntactic processing.
This text presents the results of the International Symposium on Japanese Sentence Structure held at Duke University. It provided an opportunity for r...
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873,24 |
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Japanese Linguistics Vol1
ISBN: 9780415332361 / Angielski / Twarda / 508 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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229,76 |
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JAPANESE LINGUISTICS VOL2
ISBN: 9780415332378 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traditionally, linguistic research has focused on the Indo-European language family - particularly English - and languages like Japanese and Chinese have not been pursued in theoretical developments. However, once scholars started to pay more attention to Japanese, its similarities to and differences from Indo-European languages not only revealed a great deal of typological variation, but also helped to provide a more accurate picture of the fundamental properties of human language.
For the past four decades, linguistic research on the Japanese language has made remarkable progress,... Traditionally, linguistic research has focused on the Indo-European language family - particularly English - and languages like Japanese and Chinese h...
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229,76 |
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JAPANESE LINGUISTICS VOL3
ISBN: 9780415332385 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traditionally, linguistic research has focused on the Indo-European language family - particularly English - and languages like Japanese and Chinese have not been pursued in theoretical developments. However, once scholars started to pay more attention to Japanese, its similarities to and differences from Indo-European languages not only revealed a great deal of typological variation, but also helped to provide a more accurate picture of the fundamental properties of human language.
For the past four decades, linguistic research on the Japanese language has made remarkable progress,... Traditionally, linguistic research has focused on the Indo-European language family - particularly English - and languages like Japanese and Chinese h...
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229,76 |
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The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture
ISBN: 9780415481526 / Angielski / Miękka / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This encyclopedia covers culture from the end of the Imperialist period in 1945 right up to date to reflect the vibrant nature of contemporary Japanese society and culture.
This encyclopedia covers culture from the end of the Imperialist period in 1945 right up to date to reflect the vibrant nature of contemporary Japanes...
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406,13 |