Handbook of japanese semantics and pragmatics. / Wesley M. Jacobsen, Yukinori Takubo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jacobsen, Wesley M. & Takubo, Yukinori, editor.

Series:

Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics [HJLL] ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese language--Semantics.

Japanese language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (888 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter, 2020.

Summary:

The volume on Semantics and Pragmatics presents a collection of studies on linguistic meaning in Japanese, either as conventionally encoded in linguistic form (the field of semantics) or as generated by the interaction of form with context (the field of pragmatics), representing a range of ideas and approaches that are currently most influentialin these fields. The studies are organized around a model that has long currency in traditional Japanese grammar, whereby the linguistic clause consists of a multiply nested structure centered in a propositional core of objective meaning around which forms are deployed that express progressively more subjective meaning as one moves away from the core toward the periphery of the clause. The volume seeks to achieve a balance in highlighting both insights that semantic and pragmatic theory has to offer to the study of Japanese as a particular language and, conversely, contributions that Japanese has to make to semantic and pragmatic theory in areas of meaning that are either uniquely encoded, or encoded to a higher degree of specificity, in Japanese by comparison to other languages, such as conditional forms, forms expressing varying types of speaker modality, and social deixis.

The volume on Semantics and Pragmatics presents a collection of studies on linguistic meaning in Japanese, either as conventionally encoded in linguistic form (the field of semantics) or as generated by the interaction of formwith context (the field of pragmatics), representing a range of ideas and approaches that are currently most influential in these fields. The studies are organized around a model that has long currency in traditional Japanese grammar, whereby the linguistic clause consists of a multiply nested structure centered in a propositional core of objective meaning around which forms are deployed that express progressively more subjective meaning as one moves away from the core toward the periphery of the clause. The volume seeks to achieve a balance in highlighting both insights that semantic and pragmatic theory has to offer to the study of Japanese as a particular language and, conversely, contributions that Japanese has to make to semantic and pragmatic theory in areas of meaning that are either uniquely encoded, or encoded to a higher degree of specificity, in Japanese by comparison to other languages, such as conditional forms, forms expressing varying types of speaker modality, and social deixis.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics

Table of Contents

Contributors

Introduction

1 The semantics of Japanese verbs

2 The semantics of nouns

3 Toward an empirical foundation for argument structure in Japanese, a prodrop language

4 Formal logical approaches to meaning in Japanese

5 Sentence structure and quantifier scope in Japanese: A retrospective and reanalysis

6 Temporal categories: Interactions among tense, aspect, and nontemporal meaning

7 Formal treatments of tense and aspect

8 Tense and aspect in discourse

9 Conditionals in Japanese

10 Negation

11 Possibility and necessity in Japanese: Prioritizing, epistemic, and dynamic modality

12 Evidentials: Marking the source of information

13 Presupposition and assertion

14 Sentence-final particles in Japanese

15 Nominal deixis in Japanese

16 Social deixis in Japanese

17 Conversational implicature

18 Japanese fillers as discourse markers: Meanings of “meaningless” elements

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781614512073

1614512078

9781501501050

1501501054

OCLC:

1200236571