{"title":"Taro Kageyama, Peter E. Hook and Prashant Pardeshi (eds.): Verb-verb Complexes in Asian Languages","authors":"Kentaro Nakatani","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2022-2063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2022-2063","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"91 1","pages":"291 - 293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85834254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Yoko Yonezawa: The Mysterious Address Term anata ‘you’ in Japanese","authors":"Y. Matsuda","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2022-2064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2022-2064","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"120 8","pages":"295 - 297"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72376479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power and elegance: the language of Sakurai Yoshiko","authors":"Harumi Minagawa","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2022-2060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2022-2060","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Informed by the social constructionist framework, with particular reference to “linguistic indexicality” and “the positionality principle”, this study examines how the Japanese conservative journalist Yoshiko Sakurai uses her language to construct seemingly opposite male and female images. It finds that she uses a variety of language forms and strategies, along with other aspects of her image construction, to successfully portray a feminine image ‘package’ while, at the same time, owning a very masculine nationalistic and patriotic ideology and choosing to be linguistically dominating and confrontational as she perceives the situation requires. This study provides empirical evidence to complement and add to previous findings about how Japanese women use linguistic strategies to deal with the power dynamics in their professional lives.","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"32 1","pages":"249 - 277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87055999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prashant Pardeshi and Kaoru Horie (eds.): Nihongo to sekai no gengo no meisisyuusyoku-hyoogen","authors":"Naonori Nagaya","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2022-2061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2022-2061","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"30 1","pages":"279 - 281"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84296294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reexamining Japanese youth language","authors":"Yuning Cao","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2022-2053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2022-2053","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper investigates Japanese youth language (abbreviated as “YL” thereafter) from a sociolinguistic approach and discusses whether the terminology itself is felicitous in capturing the group of words or the users it claims to be capturing by focusing on YL usage in real life and collected latest data featuring top-ranking YL words in 2018 and 2019. A closer examination of YL reveals that the usage not always matches users’ age, and that the terminology itself suggests an outsider view, creating a misconception that only young people use it. It is thus argued that age is not the correct label to define YL, and that various types of YL words exist under this umbrella notion that are used in different communities for various purposes. This article intends to promote a more comprehensive and objective understanding of YL.","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"10 1","pages":"119 - 144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75587153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How is laughter used to create and reinforce food attitudes in Japanese Dairy Taster Brunch conversations","authors":"Polly E. Szatrowski","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2022-2048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2022-2048","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper investigates how participants use laughter to create and reinforce food attitudes in conversations over a Dairy Taster Brunch. Previous conversation analytic research on Japanese conversations about food has focused on food assessments, identification, and categorization. This research addresses the following questions: 1) How does food trigger humor and laughter in conversations over food? 2) What about the situation elicits laughter? 3) How is humor and laughter used to create and reinforce food attitudes in the conversational interaction? and 4) What kinds of food attitudes are created using humor and laughter in talk about food? Results show that food attitudes are not lodged in the individual but rather are created and reinforced moment-by-moment in temporally unfolding multimodal conversational interaction. This research contributes to the growing body of research on language and food, sheds light on the relation between laughter and food, and has implications for healthy eating, and cross-cultural communication.","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"91 ","pages":"5 - 26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72444639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Japanese L2 learners’ subjective construal: an analysis of expressions of emotion and evaluation in written storytelling found in I-JAS data","authors":"Noriko Yabuki-Soh, Yukiko Okuno","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2022-2050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2022-2050","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Japanese is considered to be a language in which speakers tend to take a subjective stance by locating themselves within the situation they construe. Previous research indicates that in storytelling, Japanese L2 learners employ fewer expressions of viewpoint than L1 speakers do, and viewpoint tends to shift from character to character. Do Japanese L2 learners, then, typically take an objective stance, or do they use other devices to take a subjective stance? The present study compared Japanese L2 learners’ subjective construal with that of L1 speakers in two types of storytelling. The results indicated that while Japanese L1 speakers typically used passive voice to maintain a viewpoint, L2 learners employed a variety of expressions related to emotion and evaluation to subjectively describe the given events throughout each story. The study suggests the existence of interlanguage in that L2 learners use vocabulary-based devices instead of grammatical devices for subjective construal.","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"27 1","pages":"49 - 69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87407878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editors’ notes","authors":"M. Minami, H. Noda","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2022-2047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2022-2047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"214 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75476861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Filler words in Japanese textbooks and Japanese classes","authors":"Minori Momose","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2022-2051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2022-2051","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The purpose of this study is to report differences in the use of filler words in Japanese language textbooks and provides examples. Filler words like “Ano(o),” “E(e),” “Ma(a),” and “De(e)” are used as fillers in Japanese conversation, but in Japanese language textbooks, they are not considered appropriate teaching items for actual use. Specifically, examples of filler-like usage that need to be adopted as teaching items include “Ano(o),” which appears commonly in the beginning or middle of sentences; “E(e)”,which is used in situations with a large number of listeners; “Ma(a),” which is used in response to questions; and “De”, which appears in the middle of sentences.","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"42 1","pages":"71 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74097750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hard-to-learn conjunctive expressions for advanced learners: a survey on storytelling in I-JAS","authors":"Yuriko Sunakawa","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2022-2049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2022-2049","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract There are basic grammatical items that are difficult to learn even for advanced learners, although they are introduced early at the beginning of their learning. Conjunctive expressions that imply speakers’ subjective feelings such as suruto ‘then,’ sokode ‘then and there’ are one such item. We use storytelling data from the “International Corpus of Japanese as a Second Language” to investigate how Japanese native speakers and Japanese L2 learners whose first languages are Chinese and Korean use conjunctive expressions at the turning moments of a story. The results indicate that even learners at an advanced level do not use conjunctive expressions that native Japanese speakers do to make stories vivid and lively. We explain this phenomenon using the concept of “subjective construal.” We further consult previous research on Japanese teaching practices and consider how to instruct this type of expression.","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"44 1","pages":"27 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78555183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}