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  • Expressing Silence: Where Language and Culture Meet in Japanese

    Expressing Silence by Tsujimura, Natsuko;

    Where Language and Culture Meet in Japanese

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    • Date of Publication 15 August 2023
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781498569262
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages172 pages
    • Size 228.85x153.67x10.668 mm
    • Weight 281 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 3 b/w photos; Illustrations, unspecified
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    In Expressing Silence: Where Language and Culture Meet in Japanese, Natsuko Tsujimura discusses how silence is conceptualized and linguistically represented in Japanese. Languages differ widely in the specific linguistic and rhetorical modes through which vivid depictions of silence are achieved. In Japanese, sounds in nature evoke silence, and onomatopoeia plays an important role in simulating silent scenes. These linguistic mechanisms mediate the perception of the symbiotic relationship between sound and silence, a perception deeply embedded in the Japanese cultural experience. Expressing Silence brings the tools of both linguistic and cultural analysis in examining the remarkably rich array of representations of silence in Japanese language and culture, finding that depictions of silence through language cannot be understood without exploring what sound or silence mean to the speakers.

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    Table of Contents:

    Preface
    Chapter 1: Expressing Voids
    Chapter 2: The Sound of Silence
    Chapter 3: Mimetics and Silence
    Chapter 4: Epilogue
    References
    Index
    About the Author

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