Exploring Japaneseness : on Japanese enactments of culture and consciousness / edited by Ray T. Donahue.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Donahue, Ray T.

Series:

Civic discourse for the third millennium

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, Japanese.

Japan--Civilization--1868-.

Japan.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

xvi, 460 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Ablex Pub., 2002.

Contents:

Part I Japanese Core Cultural Concepts

1 Guideposts for Exploring Japaneseness / Ray T. Donahue 3

2 Uchi and Soto as Cultural and Linguistic Metaphors / Seiichi Makino 29

Part II Japanese Development: Person and Nation

3 The Sociocultural Discourse of Poetry: Japanese Moral and Personal Development as Reflected in Elementary School Textbooks / Tsutomu Yokota 67

4 Communications as Connections Between Different Japanese Realms: Kotsu and the Case of Children's Illustrated Books / Sylvie Guichard-Anguis 89

Part III Japanese Nation and State

5 Discourse and Cultural Attitudes: Japanese Imperial Honorifics and the Open Society / Noriko Akimoto Sugimori, Masako Hamada 105

6 Aisatsu: Ritualized Politeness as Sociopolitical and Economic Management in Japan / Brian J. McVeigh 121

7 The Great Hanshin Earthquake: The Japanese Response / Eamon McCafferty 137

8 Through the Ideological Filter: Japanese Translations of a Western News Source / Christopher Barnard 147

Part IV Japanese Nationalism and Social Minority Relations

9 Deconstructing the Japanese National Discourse: Laymen's Beliefs and Ideology / Rotem Kowner 169

10 Koreans

A Mistreated Minority in Japan: Hopes and Challenges for Japan's True Internationalization / Soo-im Lee 183

11 Nikkei Brazilians in Japan: The Ideology and Symbolic Context Faced by Children of This New Ethnic Minority / Tomoko Sekiguchi 197

Part V Japanese Language

12 Sources of Emotion in Japanese Comics: Da, Nan(i), and the Rhetoric of Futaku / Senko K. Maynard 225

13 Narrative as a Reflection of Culture and Consciousness: Developmental Aspects / Masahiko Minami 241

14 The Impact of English on the Japanese Language / Bates L. Hoffer 263

Part VI Japanese Rhetoric

15 Japan's Attempted Enactments of Western Debate Practice in the 16th and the 19th Centuries / Roichi Okabe 277

16 Japanese Identities in Written Communication: Politics and Discourses / Ryuko Kubota 293

17 Frames in American and Japanese Political Discourse / Hiroko Furo 317

Part VII Japanese Pragmatics

18 Speech Act Realization Patterns of Japanese Social Refusal: The Question Strategy / Nagiko Iwata Lee 343

19 Japaneseness Manifested in Apology Styles / Naomi Sugimoto 357

20 Vagueness Is Not Always Polite: Defensive Concession in Japanese Everyday Discourse / Reiko Hayashi 369

Part VIII Japanese Mass Media and Internet Communications

21 Japanese Advertising Discourse: Reconstructing Images / Brian Moeran 385

22 TV Commercials as Cultural Performance: The Case of Japan / Masayuki Nakanishi 399

23 Projecting Peer Approval in Advertising: Japan versus U.S. Seventeen Magazine / Michael L. Maynard 413

24 Global and Local in Computer-Mediated Communication: A Japanese Newsgroup / Jane W. Yamazaki 425.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1567505406

1567505414

OCLC:

47208591