A History of the Japanese Language

Frellesvig, Bjarke

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“…In Japanese, for instance, lexicography has often dedicated an entire stratum of the lexicon exclusively to mimetic words (Hamano, 1998;Frellesvig, 2010, Chapter 17).…”

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“…However, as noted, these words are exceedingly sparse (Tanimori and Sato, 2013, cite fewer than ten of both typessee the appendix of their work). Additionally, from Frellesvig (2010), Chapter 8, it seems that these words are an archaic literary relic from Early Middle Japanese (roughly from the ninth century to the thirteenth century). As such, they are not crucial to our analysis here.…”

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Comprehension of mimetics by adult native speakers of Japanese

2016

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Linguistics traditionally regards the relationship between a word's sound and its meaning as arbitrary; words which systematically relate sound and meaning -'sound-symbolic' or 'mimetic' words -have been regarded as peripheral (Imai and Kita, 2014); however, increasingly, research has found that languages such as Japanese have highly developed and grammatically integrated lexical strata devoted to mimetic words (Hamano, 1998;Tsujimura, 2001Tsujimura, , 2005Tsujimura and Deguchi, 2003). In Japanese, Akita (2010) has posited that among mimetics that denote internal states ('psychomimes'), three categories can be identified based on semantic, morphosyntactic, and syntactic properties. With respect to syntax, Akita proposes that compatibility with locus noun phrases constitutes a syntactic constraint on these mimetic classes' naturalness that can serve to discriminate the three classes. In this experiment, we sought to find empirical evidence for this claim by way of native speakers' judgment of the naturalness of mimetics in sentences according to a five-point scale. Our results provided empirical support for Akita's claim, indicating that her categorization might indeed be a psychological reality for native speakers of Japanese.

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“…In Japanese, for instance, lexicography has often dedicated an entire stratum of the lexicon exclusively to mimetic words (Hamano, 1998;Frellesvig, 2010, Chapter 17).…”

Section: Sound-symbolism In Linguisticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Sound-symbolism In Linguisticsmentioning

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Comprehension of mimetics by adult native speakers of Japanese

2016

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“…While several different divisions of Japanese language history have been proposed, Frellesvig (2010) proposes the following four linguistic periods, each embracing the main political epochs in Japanese history. Because of the availability of abundant philological materials, the history of the Japanese language has been one of the most intensely pursued fields in Japanese linguistics.…”

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Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics

Shibatani¹,

Kageyama²

2015

Handbook of Japanese Psycholinguistics

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“…Ichimiya, in this volume), strict government control on teaching contents, the spread of new media which accompanied economic prosperity after WW I, total mobilisation under ultranationalist regimes preceding and during the years leading to the war in China, SE Asia and the Pacific (cf. Frellesvig, 2010;Gottlieb, 2007;Komori, 2000).…”

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Images of Pre-WW II: National Language Policies as Reflected in the Field of "National Language Studies" Itself

Bekeš

2011

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In this study I focus on the possible intellectual background regarding the scant attention paid by researchers and textbook writers to the establishment of the Japanese national language and pre-WWII language policies in Japan. This fact is surprising because the successful implementation of a modern standard language was one of the key factors in the process of the building of Japan as a modern nation-state. The central hypothesis of this research is that this conspicuous absence stems from the projection of the modern nation-state on the past, resulting in a perception of Japanese polity as a basically homogeneous and unchanged continuum in time and space. An analysis of several texts by prominent Japanese scholars of the national language has revealed important differences in perception. One group, mainly those preoccupied with the didactics of the national language, tends to view the past in the light of a "homogenised" present. On the other hand, those scholars researching Japanese in the wider context of general linguistics seem to treat national language related issues in a much more critical and theoretically informed way. KeywordsJapanese language, kokugo (national language), language policy, projection, nation-state IzvlečekČlanek se osredotoča na možno intelektualno ozadje kot vzrok za pomanjkljivo pozornost, ki jo raziskovalci in pisci učbenikov posvečajo oblikovanju japonskega nacionalnega jezika in jezikovnim politikam na Japonskem pred 2. svetovno vojno. To dejstvo je presenetljivo, saj je bila uspešna implementacija modernega standardnega jezika eden od ključnih dejavnikov v procesu tvorjenja Japonske kot moderne nacionalne države. Osrednja hipoteza te raziskave je, da ta očitna odsotnost izhaja iz projekcije moderne nacionalne države na preteklost, ki je privedla do percepcije japonske državne tvorbe kot temeljno homogenega in nespremenjenega časovnega in prostorskega kontinuuma. Analiza več besedil vodilnih japonskih raziskovalcev nacionalnega jezika je razkrila nekaj pomembnih razlik v njihovih percepcijah. Ena skupina avtorjev, predvsem takih, ki se ukvarjajo z didaktiko nacionalnega jezika, vidi preteklost pretežno v luči homogenizirane sedanjosti. Po drugi strani raziskovalci, ki proučujejo japonski jezik v širšem kontekstu splošnega jezikoslovja, mnogo bolj kritično in teoretično podkovano obravnavajo teme, ki so vezane na nacionalni jezik. Andrej BEKEŠ Ključne besedeJaponski jezik, kokugo (nacionalni jezik), jezikovna politika, projekcija, nacionalna država

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A History of the Japanese Language

Cited by 191 publications

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Comprehension of mimetics by adult native speakers of Japanese

Comprehension of mimetics by adult native speakers of Japanese

Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics

Images of Pre-WW II: National Language Policies as Reflected in the Field of "National Language Studies" Itself

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