Fluid orality in the discourse of Japanese popular culture
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Fluid orality in the discourse of Japanese popular culture
(Pragmatics & beyond : new series, v. 263)
John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2016
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
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  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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This volume invites the reader into the world of pragmatic and discourse studies in Japanese popular culture. Through "character-speak", the book analyzes quoted speech in light (graphic) novels, the effeminate onee kotoba in talk shows, narrative character in keetai (mobile phone) novels, floating whispers in manga, and fictionalized dialects in television drama series. Explorations into conversational interaction, internal monologue, rhetorical figures, intertextuality, and the semiotic mediation between verbal and visual signs reveal how speakers manipulate language in performing playful "characters" and "characteristics". Most prominent in the discourse of Japanese popular culture is its "fluid orality". We find the essential oral nature in and across genres of Japanese popular culture, and observe seamless transitions among styles and speech variations. This fluidity is understood as a feature of polyphonic speech initiated not by the so-called ideal singular speaker, but by a multiple and often shifting interplay of one's speaking selves performing as various characters. Challenging traditional (Western) linguistic theories founded on the concept of the autonomous speaker, this study ventures into open and embracing pragmatic and discourse studies that inquire into the very nature of our speaking selves.
Table of Contents
- 1. Acknowledgements
- 2. Chapter 1. Introduction
- 3. Chapter 2. Fluid orality
- 4. Chapter 3. Character and character-speak
- 5. Chapter 4. Light novels: Character-speak and variation in quoted speech
- 6. Chapter 5. Talk shows: Fluid orality in gender-evoking variation
- 7. Chapter 6. Keetai novels: Narrator's character-speak in conversational narration
- 8. Chapter 7. Manga: Fluidity of multilayered speech in floating whispers
- 9. Chapter 8. Drama: Fluid orality in place-evoking fictionalized variations
- 10. Chapter 9. Reflections and aspirations
- 11. Appendix: Presentation of data in Japanese orthography
- 12. References
- 13. Data references
- 14. Author index
- 15. Subject index
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