Exploring Japaneseness
Subtitle: on Japanese enactments of culture and consciousness
By: edited by Ray T. Donahue.
Contributors: Donahue, Ray T.
Series: Civic discourse for the third millennium
Publisher: Ablex Pub.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
Subjects: National characteristics, Japanese; Japan -- Civilization -- 1868-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Guideposts for exploring Japaneseness -- Ray T. Donahue; title: Uchi and soto as cultural and linguistic metaphors -- Seiichi Makino -- The; title: sociocultural discourse of poetry: Japanese moral and personal development as reflected in elementary school textbooks -- Tsutomu Yokota; title: Communications as connections between different Japanese realms: K ots u and the case of children's illustrated books -- Sylvie Guichard-Anguis; title: Discourse and cultural attitudes: Japanese imperial honorifics and the open society -- Noriko Akimoto Sugimori and Masako Hamada; title: Aisatsu: ritualized politeness as sociopolitical and economic management in Japan -- Brian J. McVeigh -- The; title: great Hanshin earthquake: the Japanese response -- Eamon McCafferty; title: Through the ideological filter: Japanese translations of a Western news source -- Christopher Barnard; title: Deconstructing the Japanese national discourse: laymen's beliefs and ideology -- Rotem Kowner; title: Koreans- a mistreated minority in Japan: hopes and challenges for Japan's true internationalization -- Soo-im Lee; title: Nikkei Brazilians in Japan: the ideology and symbolic context faced by children of this new ethnic minority -- Tomoko Sekiguchi; title: Sources of emotion in Japanese comics: da, nan(i), and the rhetoric of futaku -- Senko K. Maynard; title: Narrative as a reflection of culture and consciousness: developmental aspects -- Masahiko Minami -- The; title: impact of English on the Japanese language -- Bates L. Hoffer; title: Japan's attempted enactments of Western debate practice in the 16th and the 19th centuries -- Roichi Okabe; title: Japanese identities in written communication: politics and discourses -- Ryuko Kubota; title: Frames in American and Japanese political discourse -- Hiroko Furo; title: Speech act realization patterns of Japanese social refusal: the question strategy -- Nagiko Iwata Lee; title: Japaneseness manifested in apology styles -- Naomi Sugimoto; title: Vagueness is not always polite: defensive concession in Japanese everyday discourse -- Reiko Hayashi; title: Japanese advertising discourse: reconstructing images -- Brian Moeran; title: TV commercials as cultural performance: the case of Japan -- Masayuki Nakanishi; title: Projecting peer approval in advertising: Japan versus US Seventeen magazine -- Michael L. Maynard; title: Global and local in computer-mediated communication: a Japanese newsgroup-- Jane W. Yamazaki.