Form and function of emotive pictorial signs in casual letter writing

Kataoka, Kuniyoshi

doi:10.1075/wll.6.1.02kat

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“…Kataoka (2003) illustrates that young Japanese women often write personal Downloaded by [UNAM Ciudad Universitaria] at 20:55 25 December 2014 letters and notes with graphic signs and engage in emotive interactions with peers through shared graphemic resources. the letters demonstrate the existence of a highly creative but regulated visual language with subversive and inventive codes.…”

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Politics of Japanese Naming Practice: Language Policy and Character Use

Watanabe

2007

Current Issues in Language Planning

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This paper discusses the collision between government guidelines on kanji use in public documents and Japanese naming practice that places significance on written forms. The tension between the state's need to control the legibility of its texts through allowable kanji character lists collides with people's rights and desires to name their own children. Using popular baby names and controversial court cases, the paper also analyses the political and ideological nature of the conflict over Japanese names and script. It also reviews the development of the character list for personal names, including the radical expansion of the list in 2004.

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Politics of Japanese Naming Practice: Language Policy and Character Use

Watanabe

2007

Current Issues in Language Planning

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“…Pictures of sweat droplets or tears, *, or the kanji meaning ''laugh'' in brackets punctuate such female writing, analyzed by Kataoka (1997Kataoka ( , 2003) from a cognitive linguistics angle. Those that can be easily typed, e.g., vowel length markers and unconventional use of punctuation, are found to varying extents in the pulpier end of popular fiction.…”

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Nonconventional script choice in Japan

Tranter

2008

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

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The complexity and plurality of scripts and writing devices, such as auxiliary text or ''ruby,'' used in nonconventional writing in Japan are outlined, and various aspects, such as the use of loan scripts, are shown to parallel aspects of spoken language contact. The complexity of Japanese writing overall is attributed to ''indirect'' language contact with languages encountered predominantly in written form, especially Literary Chinese in the past and English nowadays, to which the concept of ''total availability'' that R. A. Miller (1967) uses to characterize neologism in Japan is applied. Specific choices of script are described in terms of cultural stereotypes and Jakobson's (1960) functions of language. Advertising and manga are identified as the major sources of many nonconventional practices that then spread into youth writing and even popular fiction. In each point, there is a parallel between choices in spoken language and in script choice.

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“…However, its use along with other features of spoken language discussed in (1) is more typically found in books intended for young (adult) audiences. This paper is concerned with the use of extensive clause combining as part of the shin genbun itch style.13 Personal letters written by the young may be another medium where one would find the fusion of speech and writing Kataoka (2003). analyzes pictorial signs and unconventional punctuation in Japanese girls' and young women's personal letters.…”

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Connection and emotion

Suzuki¹

2022

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This paper looks at the phenomenon of extensive clause combining in written Japanese discourse. Extensive clause combining, in which multiple clauses are combined to make an extremely long sentence, is usually associated with spoken discourse. However, some contemporary writers use it in their writing along with other features of spoken language. By examining novels targeting young adult readers, I observe that writers are using sentences with extensively combined clauses to describe a lengthy process in which each step is closely connected to another. Interconnectedness is expressed iconically with chained clauses. Writers may also use sentences with extensively combined clauses to convey heightened emotion. Successive chaining of clauses is appropriate for presenting continuous thoughts/emotions appearing in an unorganized manner.

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Form and function of emotive pictorial signs in casual letter writing

Cited by 14 publications

References 15 publications

Politics of Japanese Naming Practice: Language Policy and Character Use

Politics of Japanese Naming Practice: Language Policy and Character Use

Nonconventional script choice in Japan

Connection and emotion

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