Kategoria BISAC: Foreign Language Study >> Japanese

Diekontrastive Studie Deutsch-Japanisch zeigt, dass in der Sprache zwei Strategien zur Herstellung von Referenz auftreten, die von einer Sprache zur anderen in unterschiedlicher Ausgepragtheit verankert sind: Deixis und Anaphorik. Diese determinieren die Grammatik einer Sprache weitgehend, und zwar auf allen relevanten linguistischen Ebenen, namlich in Text, Satz und Wort.
Die Untersuchung, in der eine kontrastive Analyse zweier phylogenetisch weit voneinander entfernter Sprachen durchgefuhrt wird, hat dabei zwei Ziele: Zum einen wird versucht, eine neue Typologie aufzustellen, die...

This volume supplements the Facets of Culture textbook for advanced-level students of Japanese language. The textbook's six thematic units focus on diversity and boundary-crossing in contemporary Japanese society; topics include popular culture, translation, cross-cultural communication, bioethics, changing work patterns, and individualized learning. The Tasks, Vocabulary, and Sentence Patterns volume provides grammatical information, vocabulary in Japanese and English, and exercises and worksheets to aid the student in grasping the materials presented in the Text...

The verbal participation of learners in language classrooms offers a rich seam of data to the applied linguist. Overt and covert participation, when examined, can reveal both the structures of a classroom and elicit privileged information on participant's self-perceptions. It examines the verbal participation of learners in Japanese as a Foreign Language classrooms. Verbal interactions with teachers and classmates and 'private' speech acts are examined in relation to the classroom context and also sociocultural factors such as the learner's motivation and the teacher's belief in their own...

Japanese and Korean are typologically similar, with linguistic phenomena in one often having counterparts in the other. The Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference provides a forum for research, particularly through comparative study, of both languages.This volume includes essays on the phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, discourse analysis, prosody, and psycholinguistics of both languages. This volume will be a useful tool for any researcher or student in either field."

The Routledge Intermediate to Advanced Japanese Reader: A Genre-Based Approach to Reading as a Social Practice is designed for intermediate to advanced learners of Japanese and presents twenty-five authentic texts taken from a wide range of media and literary sources, which promote a deeper understanding of Japan among readers. The book is divided into ten genre-based chapters, allowing the learner to focus on the textual features relevant to that genre.

Key features include:

• Selected texts covering topics related to Japanese language, society and culture encountered in the...

The book contains a number of studies in Japanese phonology and morphology, all analyses by leading scholars in the field. It presents an overview of the work that has been done in Japan and other countries and offers new solutions to long-standing problems. In the phonology chapters, it focuses on segmental as well as suprasegmental issues, including voicing and tone, approaching these issues from a variety of perspectives, including Optimality Theory and Government Phonology. In the morphology chapters, attention is given to truncation patterns and the possibilities for compound...