Linguistic Creativity in Japanese Discourse
Subtitle: Exploring the multiplicity of self, perspective, and voice (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series)
Edition: 159 edition
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing; J. Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: July 13, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9789027254023
Subjects: Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure; Language Arts & Disciplines; Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase Books; Language; Japanese; Linguistics; Creativity (Linguistics); Discourse analysis; Language and languages; Style
Description: "Using theoretical concepts of self, perspective, and voice as an interpretive guide, and based on the Place of Negotiation theory, this volume explores the phenomenon of linguistic creativity in Japanese discourse, i.e., the use of language in specific ways for foregrounding personalized expressive meanings."--BOOK JACKET.