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Expressing Silence - Where Language and Culture Meet in Japanese (Hardcover)
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Expressing Silence - Where Language and Culture Meet in Japanese (Hardcover)
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In Expressing Silence: Where Language and Culture Meet in Japanese,
Natsuko Tsujimura discusses how silence is conceptualized and
linguistically represented in Japanese. Languages differ widely in
the specific linguistic and rhetorical modes through which vivid
depictions of silence are achieved. In Japanese, sounds coming from
insects, small animals, ocean waves, and leaves all evoke silence,
and onomatopoeia plays an important role in simulating silent
scenes. These linguistic mechanisms mediate the perception of the
symbiotic relationship between sound and silence, a perception
deeply embedded in the Japanese cultural experience. Drawing from a
wide variety of rhetorical samples, Expressing Silence brings the
tools of both linguistic and cultural analysis to bear in examining
the remarkably rich array of representations of silence in Japanese
language and culture. She finds that depictions of silence through
language cannot be understood without exploring what sound or
silence mean to the speakers. She analyzes a cluster of sounds in
nature and onomatopoeic vocabulary for verbal portrayals of
silence, consistent with a cultural pattern of practices that value
sensate and affective reactions.
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