Linguistic emotivity : centrality of place, the topic-comment dynamic, and an ideology of pathos in Japanese discourse / Senko K. Maynard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maynard, Senko K.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 97.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 97

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotive (Linguistics).

Grammar, Comparative and general--Topic and comment.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Japanese language--Discourse analysis.

Japanese language.

Language and culture--Japan.

Language and culture.

Pathos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (495 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Linguistic Emotivity explores expressive and emotive meanings in Japanese from the perspective of the Place of Negotiation theory. The Place of Negotiation theory provides a framework for understanding how linguistic signs function in the place of communication (in cognitive, emotive, and interactional places). The theory finds the indexicality of a sign fundamental and views meanings as being negotiated among interactants who share not only information but, more significantly, feelings.Using analytical tools recognized in conversation and discourse analyses, the book analyzes emotive topics (vocatives, emotive nominals, quotative topics, etc.) and emotive comments (da and ja-nai, interrogatives, stylistic shifts, etc.) in contemporary Japanese discourse. It argues for the importance of emotivity in Japanese, in the context of the Japanese culture of pathos. Linguistic Emotivity challenges the traditional view of language that privileges logos, form, information, and abstraction, and instead, it proposes a philosophical shift toward pathos, expression, emotion, and linguistic event/action.

Contents:

Linguistic Emotivity

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication

Contents

Preface and acknowledgments

Part 1: Preliminaries

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Background

Part 2: Theory

Chapter 3: The Place of Negotiation theory

Chapter 4: The (re-)turn to place

Chapter 5: Locating and interpreting emotive meanings

Chapter 6: Topic-comment, futaku, and the Rhetoric of Pathos

Part 3: Emotive topics

On data for analysis

Chapter 7: Vocatives and topics

Chapter 8: Emotive nominals

Chapter 9: Quotative topics

Chapter 10: Emotive nan(i) 'what'

Part 4: Emotive comments

Chapter 11: Da and ja-nai as commentary strategies

Chapter 12: Interrogatives as emotive comments

Chapter 13: Commenting through stylistic shifts

Part 5: Pathos in Japanese discourse

Chapter 14: Analyzing expressions of pathos in Oda Nobunaga

Chapter 15: Rhetoric of Pathos in Mini-Jihyoo newspaper articles

Chapter 16: Playing with pathos

Part 6: Reflections

Chapter 17: Linguistic emotivity and the culture of pathos

Chapter 18: Language, linguistic theory, and ideology

Appendix

Notes

References

Data references

Author index

Subject index

Pragmatics and Beyond New Series.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-459) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612254871

9789027297372

9027297371

9781282254879

1282254871

9780585462585

0585462585

OCLC:

614705375