Nihongo : in defence of Japanese / Roy Andrew Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Roy Andrew, author.

Series:

Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections

Linguistics : Bloomsbury Academic Collections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The Japanese language is often under attack by linguists, translators and even amateurs for having a seemingly vague set of rules, making it near impossible to ever fully grasp all of the language's facets. Roy Andrew Miller guides the reader through these often contradictory allegations by evaluating Japanese in the light of linguistic science. He also pays particular attention to the problems inherent in certain systems for describing the language, and to questions posed by published translations from Japanese literature."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction

1 The Language and the Script

2 Square Pegs, Round Holes

3 Native Guides and Foreign Tourists

4 The Semantic Fallacy

5 Time, Tense and Aspect

6 Translation and Translators

7 The Chicken or the Egg Postscript

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4742-8493-0

1-4742-4722-9

OCLC:

927168839