Nihongo
Subtitle: In Defence of Japanese
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781474247214
Subjects: Japanese language
Description: "The Japanese language is often under attack by linguists, translators and even amateurs for having a seemingly vague set of rules, making it near impossible to ever fully grasp all of the language's facets. Roy Andrew Miller guides the reader through these often contradictory allegations by evaluating Japanese in the light of linguistic science. He also pays particular attention to the problems inherent in certain systems for describing the language, and to questions posed by published translations from Japanese literature."--Bloomsbury Publishing.