LINGUIST List 33.22
Fri Jan 07 2022
Books: The Mysterious Address Term ''anata'' ‘you’ in Japanese: Yonezawa
Editor for this issue: Billy Dickson <billydlinguistlist.org>
Date: 05-Dec-2021
From: Karin Plijnaar <karin.plijnaar
benjamins.nl>
Subject: The Mysterious Address Term ''anata'' ‘you’ in Japanese: Yonezawa
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Series Title: Topics in Address Research 4
Published: 2021
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL:
https://benjamins.com/catalog/tar.4 Author: Yoko Yonezawa
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027258922 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027258922 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Electronic: ISBN: 9789027258922 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027210500 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027210500 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027210500 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 100.70
Abstract:
The use of the second person singular pronoun "anata" ‘you’ in modern Japanese has long been regarded as mysterious and problematic, generating contradictory nuances such as polite, impolite, intimate, and distancing. Treated as a troublesome pronoun, scholars have searched for a semantically loaded meaning in "anata", under the assumption that all Japanese personal reference terms involve social indexicality. This book takes a new approach, revealing that "anata" is in fact semantically simple and its powerful expressivity is explained only in pragmatic terms. In doing so, the study brings to bear a thorough understanding of key issues in pragmatics, such as common ground, sociocultural norms, and shared understandings, in order to fully grasp the meaning and usage of this single linguistic item. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in a range of linguistic fields, such as semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, anthropological linguistics, linguistic typology, cultural linguistics, as well as applied linguistics.
Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
Semantics
Subject Language(s):
Japanese (jpn) Written In: English (eng)
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