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The volume on Semantics and Pragmatics presents a collection of
studies on linguistic meaning in Japanese, either as conventionally
encoded in linguistic form (the field of semantics) or as generated
by the interaction of form with context (the field of pragmatics),
representing a range of ideas and approaches that are currently
most influentialin these fields. The studies are organized around a
model that has long currency in traditional Japanese grammar,
whereby the linguistic clause consists of a multiply nested
structure centered in a propositional core of objective meaning
around which forms are deployed that express progressively more
subjective meaning as one moves away from the core toward the
periphery of the clause. The volume seeks to achieve a balance in
highlighting both insights that semantic and pragmatic theory has
to offer to the study of Japanese as a particular language and,
conversely, contributions that Japanese has to make to semantic and
pragmatic theory in areas of meaning that are either uniquely
encoded, or encoded to a higher degree of specificity, in Japanese
by comparison to other languages, such as conditional forms, forms
expressing varying types of speaker modality, and social deixis.
This collection of papers is the first book ever published in
English that presents detailed analyses of valency and transitivity
alternations in Japanese from multifaceted standpoints: morphology,
semantics, syntax, dialects, history, acquisition, and language
typology.
This collection of papers is the first book ever published in
English that presents detailed analyses of valency and transitivity
alternations in Japanese from multifaceted standpoints: morphology,
semantics, syntax, dialects, history, acquisition, and language
typology.
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