The Grammar of Japanese Mimetics
Perspectives from structure, acquisition, and translation
Series: Routledge Studies in East Asian Linguistics;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 13 December 2016
- ISBN 9781138181908
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages252 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 476 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 22 Illustrations, black & white; 4 Halftones, black & white; 18 Line drawings, black & white; 27 Tables, black & white 0
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Short description:
Mimetic words, also known as ‘sound-symbolic words’, ‘ideophones’ or ‘onomatopoeia’, constitute an important subset of the Japanese lexicon as well as that of other Asian languages and sub-Saharan African languages. It plays a central role in Japanese grammar and feature in children’s early utterances. Through accounts of mimetics from the perspectives of morpho-syntax, semantics, language development and translation of mimetic words, this book aims to bridge the gap between the research on Japanese mimetics and its availability to an international audience, and provides a better understanding of grammatical and structural aspects of sound-symbolic words from a Japanese perspective.
MoreLong description:
Mimetic words, also known as ‘sound-symbolic words’, ‘ideophones’ or more popularly as ‘onomatopoeia’, constitute an important subset of the Japanese lexicon; we find them as well in the lexicons of other Asian languages and sub-Saharan African languages. Mimetics play a central role in Japanese grammar and feature in children’s early utterances. However, this class of words is not considered as important in English and other European languages. This book aims to bridge the gap between the extensive research on Japanese mimetics and its availability to an international audience, and also to provide a better understanding of grammatical and structural aspects of sound-symbolic words from a Japanese perspective. Through the accounts of mimetics from the perspectives of morpho-syntax, semantics, language development and translation of mimetic words, linguists and students alike would find this book particularly valuable.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Grammatical and Semantic Properties of Mimetics in Japanese1. The Significance of the Grammatical Study of Japanese Mimetics (Peter Sells)
2. Grammatical and Functional Properties of Mimetics in Japanese (Kimi Akita)
3. The Position of to-/∅-marked Mimetics in Japanese Sentence Structure (Kiyoko Toratani)
4. Swarm-type Mimetic Verbs in Japanese (Ann Wehmeyer)
5. How Flexible Should the Grammar of Mimetics Be? A View from Japanese Poetry (Natsuko Tsujimura)
Part II: Acquisition of Mimetics (As a First or Second Language)
6. Mimetics as Japanese Root Infinitive Analogues (Keiko Murasugi)
7. Grammar of Japanese Mimetics used by English and Korean Learners of L2 Japanese in KY Corpus Interviews: Does L1-L2 Similarity Help? (Noriko Iwasaki)
8. Acquisition of Mimetics and the Development of Proficiency in L2 Japanese: A Longitudinal Case Study of an L1 Dutch Speaker’s Speech and Gesture (Keiko Yoshioka)
9. Use of Mimetics in Motion Event Descriptions by English and Korean Learners of L2 Japanese: Does Language Typology Make a Difference? (Noriko Iwasaki)
Part III: Mimetics and Translation
10. Translating into Japanese Mimetics: Grammatical Class-shifts and Historical Development (Mika Kizu and Naomi Cross)
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