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Traditionally, linguistic research has focused on the Indo-European
language family - particularly English - and languages like
Japanese and Chinese have not been pursued in theoretical
developments. However, once scholars started to pay more attention
to Japanese, its similarities to and differences from Indo-European
languages not only revealed a great deal of typological variation,
but also helped to provide a more accurate picture of the
fundamental properties of human language. For the past four
decades, linguistic research on the Japanese language has made
remarkable progress, contributing to the intellectual and
scientific exploration of the linguistic and cognitive sciences,
synchronic and diachronic sociocultural developments, and to the
humanities more generally. This three-volume collection, compiled
of published articles that are considered seminal in the
development of Japanese linguistic research, represents a variety
of formal and functional approaches to a broad range of areas of
linguistics. The collection also includes articles from journals
and chapters taken from monographs and edited volumes.
Food, Language, and Society: Communication in Japanese Foodways
examines the language of food in Japanese through the lens of
cognitive science and cultural studies to explore intriguing ways
in which language, food, and culture interact in the fabric of
Japanese society. The questions of how, where, and by whom food and
food experiences are described provide abundant opportunities for
investigating relationships between language and culture from
multi-disciplinary perspectives. Linguistic analysis of the
language of food enables us to understand cognitive information
that motivates and influences people's rhetorical choices on
foodways. Detailed discussions reveal that loanwords, mimetics,
cooking terms, and metaphors serve as lynchpins to enrich the
expressive power of the language of food. Food discourse situated
in broader social and cultural contexts also reflect social norms
and cultural practices deeply embedded within and beyond our
gustatory and culinary life. Food narratives as in cookbooks and
advertisements are an informative means for virtual interpersonal
communication where individual and group identity is indexed,
providing a platform for reexamination of gender and other social
norms as response to changes in society. Examined from the
interaction of linguistic and sociocultural perspectives, Food,
Language, and Society illuminates the form, use, and social meaning
of the language of food.
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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