Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. This is the first monograph-length study in English of the Japanese-language literary activities-both reading and writing-of Japanese migrants to Brazil.

Written by a leading expert in the field this book is the first full-length study in English to examine the use of discriminatory language in Japan.

The aim of this book is to provide the student of Japanese with a simple method for correlating the writing and the meaning of Japanese characters in such a way as to make them both easy to remember.

This book examines how Japanese learners of English learned about managing politeness while they were studying at language schools in New Zealand.

Each unit of the workbook provides: practice in reading and writing Kanji individually and in cont ext reading, writing and speaking tasks on the Wakatta! topics three levels of listening tasks (using the Wakatta! audio tapes ) puzzles, ...

Wakatta! has been written for senior high school students continuing their study of Japanese.

Each unit of the workbook provides: practice in reading and writing kanji individually and in con text reading, writing and speaking tasks on the Wakatta! topics three levels of listening tasks (using the Wakatta! audio tape s) puzzles, ...

Course components: The complete course comprises the book and audio materials. These are available to purchase separately in paperback, ebook, CD and MP3 format.

This volume explores the variations in polarity-sensitive expressions through comparisons between Japanese and other languages, such as English, German, Spanish, and Old Japanese, and examines the environments and contexts in which polarity ...

This bilingual (Japanese-English) guide to "media English" covers nearly 200 connectors, phrasal verbs, idiomatic verb phrases, and everday expressions.

The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.

The thirty-six papers in this volume encompass a variety of areas, such as phonetics; phonology; morphology; syntax; semantics; pragmatics; discourse analysis; and the geographical and historical factors that influence the development of ...

Japanese Festivals, known as Matsuri, are integral part of Japanese culture.

Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition.

First in-depth study in English of Japanese names, their history and evolution, and ontological implications.

A two-volume introduction to written and spoken Japanese, comprising fifty-two lessons with exercises and vocabularies.

Kanbun, in Japan vom Altertum bis in die Neuzeit verwendetes klassisches Chinesisch bzw.

Narrog zeigt, wie diese Suffixe am Verb in ihrer Funktion im Gegenwartsjapanischen historisch entstanden sind.

This complete description of the language of the golden Heian period (794-1185) features an innovative morphological analysis to facilitate reference usage and provides a comprehensive reference work for students of classical Japanese.

Being in denial is not the same as being cured. This book, like the author's seven books published in Japan/ese, treats prejudice by uncovering its roots and exposing them to the healthy light of reason.

This text adopts a wide focus on the range of East Asian languages, in both their pre-modern and modern forms, with sections on dialect studies, contact linguistics, socio-linguistics and syntax/phonology.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Sie haben angefangen, Japanisch zu lernen, haben regelmäßig Kontakt zu japanischen Geschäftspartnern oder wollen Ihren Urlaub in Japan verbringen?

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This is then followed by various texts, a grammar summary, Kanji, activities, cultural notes, vocabulary and remember of pictorial charts. the Workbook contains gramma tical exercises, listening, comprehension, composition and Kanji writing ...

This is an analysis of all authorised Japanese history textbooks using a critical discourse, elucidating the meanings and associated ideologies created by the language of the textbooks.

This book surveys the psycholinguistic dimensions of lexical access to the mental lexicon in Japanese, and attempts to synthesize the diversity of Japanese psycholinguistic research into the nature of written word processing in Japanese.

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--Ruhr-Universit'at Bochum, 2003) originally presented under the title: Semantische Interpretation des syntaktischen Bezugs adnominaler Verben zum Bezugsnomen im Japanischen.

Book & CDs. This popular instruction book, ideal for both individual and classroom use, is now accompanied by 2 audio CDs! The 25 lessons combine dialogues with easy-to-follow grammatical explanations.

A succinct overview of the Japanese language, looking at grammar, vocabulary, meaning and sound structure, as well as sociolinguistics and history.

The essays in this collection show a fascination with the social context behind the development of aesthetics, drama, language, art and philosophy, whether it be the world of the pleasure quarters or the Shogun's court.

A complete reference guide to modern Japanese grammar, it fills many gaps left by previous textbooks. Grammar points are put in context by examples from a range of Japanese media.

Japanese and Korean are typologically quite similar, so a linguistic phenomenon in one language often has a counterpart in the other. The papers in this volume are intended to further compare and/or contrast research in both languages.

Die nach Sachgruppen geordnete Bibliographie erfaßt 2.150 auf deutsch publizierte Schriften zu Fragen der japanischen Sprache, von der Phonetik des Altjapanischen bis zur Semiotik moderner T-Shirt-Texte.

With more than 1,200 useful phrases and expressions and over 2,300 words covering just about any situation a traveler is likely to encounter, Berlitz Phrase Books remain the unparalleled market leader. Maps. Index.

Six songs are still performed today, albeit vastly modified. As well as being of value to musicologists, these volumes will interest readers concerned with early Japanese literature and paleography.

In a lucid and insightful discussion, Yamada outlines the basic differences between Japanese and American English and analyzes a number of real-life business and social interactions in which these differences led to miscommunication.

Contains illustrated examples of nearly 200 Japanese sound effect words (aka onomatopoeia) that are often used by Japanese manga artists. Includes English translations.

Provides over one hundred illustrated examples of onomatopoeia from the Japanese language.

Japanese Syntax in Comparative Perspective seeks to fill a gap in the literature by examining Japanese in comparison with other Asian languages, including Chinese, Korean, Turkish, and Dravidian and Indo-Aryan languages of India.

Waley was the single most important force in creating what the English-speaking public understood to be Japanese literature with his popular and critically acclaimed translations of Japanese poetry, no plays and the celebrated 11th-century ...

The essays in this volume leave the vertical axis of hierarchy and subordination—an organizing trope in much of the literature on Japan—and focus instead on the horizontal, interpreting a wide range of cultural practices and ...

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This is a superb model of engaged scholarship."—Naoki Sakai, author of Voices of the Past: The Status of Language in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Discourse "Miyako Inoue's Vicarious Language is a work of scholarly distinction and cultural ...

This is a superb model of engaged scholarship."—Naoki Sakai, author of Voices of the Past: The Status of Language in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Discourse "Miyako Inoue's Vicarious Language is a work of scholarly distinction and cultural ...

The volume is divided into language sketches, the majority of which are broken down into sections on phonology, orthography, morphology, syntax and lexicon.

Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition.

Teaches how to read and write Japanese so the Japanese comic books and cartoons can be enjoyed.

This first book of its kind gives a comprehensive introduction to Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) Computing.

This book refutes the common Western belief that non-alphabetic writing systems (Chinese, Japanese.