Wesley C. Robertson

Scripting Japan (eBook, ePUB)

Orthography, Variation, and the Creation of Meaning in Written Japanese

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This monograph provides the first investigation into the ways these authors and their readers engage with script variation as a social language practice, looking at how purely script-based language choices influence the ultimate meaning created by language acts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000088588
• Artikelnr.: 59636377

Autorenporträt

Wesley C. Robertson is Lecturer in International Studies at Macquarie University, Australia. His research focuses on variation and language play inherent in writing, with a focus on Japanese. He completed his PhD in Applied Japanese Linguistics at Monash University in 2016.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Scripting Japan 2. Graphic Play as a Social Act: Indexicality and Orthographic Variation 3. Scripted Speech and Scripted Speakers: Katakana and Non-Native Japanese 4. Scripted Voices: Contrasted Identities and Contrasting Standards 5. Script Choice and Pronoun Choice: Indexical Fields in Interaction 6. Using Katakana like an Oyaji: Script Variation and Authorial Identity 7. The Social Lives of Japanese Scripts