Handbook of Japanese Semantics and Pragmatics

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Handbook of Japanese Semantics and Pragmatics

Edited by: Wesley M. Jacobsen and Yukinori Takubo

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2020

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Volume 5 | Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics [HJLL]

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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.

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Wesley M. Jacobsen, Harvard University, USA; Yukinori Takubo, Kyoto University, Japan.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Masayoshi Shibatani and Taro Kageyama Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics Masayoshi Shibatani and Taro Kageyama Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xxxv
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xxxix
Introduction Wesley M. Jacobsen and Yukinori Takubo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
I Word-level semantics
1 The semantics of Japanese verbs Yo Matsumoto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	19
2 The semantics of nouns Yuji Nishiyama Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	51
II Proposition-level semantics
3 Toward an empirical foundation for argument structure in Japanese, a prodrop language Wesley M. Jacobsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	105
4 Formal logical approaches to meaning in Japanese Takao Gunji Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
5 Sentence structure and quantifier scope in Japanese: A retrospective and reanalysis Ayumi Ueyama and J.-R. Hayashishita Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	267
III The semantics of time
6 Temporal categories: Interactions among tense, aspect, and nontemporal meaning Wesley M. Jacobsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	311
7 Formal treatments of tense and aspect Stefan Kaufmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	371
8 Tense and aspect in discourse Mayumi Kudo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	423
IV The semantics of reality
9 Conditionals in Japanese Yukinori Takubo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	451
10 Negation Ikumi Imani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	495
11 Possibility and necessity in Japanese: Prioritizing, epistemic, and dynamic modality Magdalena Kaufmann and Sanae Tamura Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	537
V The semantics of information: Speaker-oriented modality
12 Evidentials: Marking the source of information Yurie Hara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	589
13 Presupposition and assertion Tomohide Kinuhata Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	619
14 Sentence-final particles in Japanese Elin McCready and Christopher Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	655
VI Meaning in context: Inter-speaker modality and pragmatics
15 Nominal deixis in Japanese Yukinori Takubo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	687
16 Social deixis in Japanese Barbara Pizziconi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	733
17 Conversational implicature Satoshi Tomioka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	773
18 Japanese fillers as discourse markers: Meanings of “meaningless” elements Noriko Iwasaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	799
Subject Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	839

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October 12, 2020

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9781614512073

Hardcover published on:

October 12, 2020

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9781614512882

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Front matter:

44

Main content:

843

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73

Tables:

37

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614512073

eBook ISBN: 9781614512073

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Keywords for this book

Semantics; Pragmatics; Japanese; Tense and Aspect; Modality

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