1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface and ackowledgments xi
4. Part 1. Preliminaries
5. 1. Introduction 3
6. 2. Background 21
7. Part 2. Theory
8. 3. The Place of Negotiation theory 53
9. 4. The (re-)turn to place 73
10. 5. Locating and interpreting emotive meanings 85
11. 6. Topic–comment, futaku , and the Rhetoric of Pathos 101
12. Part 3. Emotive topics
13. 7. Vocatives and topics 123
14. 8. Emotive nominals 149
15. 9. Quotative topics 165
16. 10. Emotive nan(i) ‘what’ 191
17. Part 4. Emotive comments
18. 11. Da and ja-nai as commentary strategies 217
19. 12. Interrogatives as emotive comments 247
20. 13. Commenting through stylistic shifts 277
21. Part 5. Pathos in Japanese discourse
22. 14. Analyzing expressions of pathos in Oda Nobunaga 307
23. 15. Rhetoric of Pathos in Mini-Jihyoo newspaper articles 337
24. 16. Playing with pathos 357
25. Part 6. Reflections
26. 17. Linguistic emotivity and the culture of pathos 393
27. 18. Language, linguistic theory, and ideology 409
28. Appendix 419
29. Notes 423
30. References 435
31. Data references 460
32. Author index 465
33. Subject index 469