Linguistic Emotivity explores expressive and emotive meanings in Japanese from the perspective of the Place of Negotiation theory. The Place of Negotiation theory provides a framework for understanding how linguistic signs function in the place of communication (in cognitive, emotive, and interactional places). The theory finds the indexicality of a sign fundamental and views meanings as being negotiated among interactants who share not only information but, more significantly, feelings.Using analytical tools recognized in conversation and discourse analyses, the book analyzes emotive topics (vocatives, emotive nominals, quotative topics, etc.) and emotive comments (da and ja-nai, interrogatives, stylistic shifts, etc.) in contemporary Japanese discourse. It argues for the importance of emotivity in Japanese, in the context of the Japanese culture of pathos. Linguistic Emotivity challenges the traditional view of language that privileges logos, form, information, and abstraction, and instead, it proposes a philosophical shift toward pathos, expression, emotion, and linguistic event/action. Table of ContentsPreface and ackowledgments xi Part 1: Preliminaries 1. Introduction 3 2. Background 21 Part 2: Theory 3. The Place of Negotiation theory 53 4. The (re-)turn to place 73 5. Locating and interpreting emotive meanings 85 6. Topic•comment, futaku, and the Rhetoric of Pathos 101 Part 3: Emotive topics 7. Vocatives and topics 123 8. Emotive nominals 149 9. uotative topics 165 10. Emotive nan(i) ‘what’ 191 Part 4: Emotive comments 11. Da and ja-nai as commentary strategies 217 12. Interrogatives as emotive comments 247 13. Commenting through stylistic shifts 277 Part 5: Pathos in Japanese discourse 14. Analyzing expressions of pathos in Oda Nobunaga 307 15. Rhetoric of Pathos in Mini-Jihyoo newspaper articles 337 16. Playing with pathos 357 Part 6: Reflections 17. Linguistic emotivity and the culture of pathos 393 18. Language, linguistic theory, and ideology 409 Appendix: Information on select data 419 Notes 423 References 435 Data references 460 Author index 465 Subject index 469