Principles of Japanese Discourse - A Handbook

Klappentext A helpful self-study guide! and an excellent reference source for students and instructors of Japanese. Zusammenfassung This book presents! in thirty entries! clear explication of Japanese discourse organisation and detailed analysis of the rhetorical strategies. Also included are practice readings from contemporary Japanese discourse. A helpful self-study guide! it is also an excellent reference source for students and instructors of Japanese. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; To the instructors; Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Beyond the sentence: discourse and bunshoo; 2. Rhetoric and culture; 3. Written, spoken and in-between; 4. Style distinction: da, desu/masu and dearu; Part II. Principles: 5. Rhetorical organization; 6. Rhetorical strategies; Part III. Selected Readings: 7. Prelude: on reading different genres of contemporary Japanese texts; 8. Reading Japanese texts; 9-15. R1-R7; Appendix; References; Index.

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• Authors: Senko K. Maynard, Senko K. (Rutgers University Maynard, Maynard Senko K.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.1998
• EAN: 9780521599092
• ISBN: 978-0-521-59909-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Japanese, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc