{"title":"Wesley M. Jacobsen and Yukinori Takubo: Handbook of Japanese Semantics and Pragmatics","authors":"Y. Hasegawa","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2021-2044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2021-2044","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"95 1","pages":"275 - 280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73578373","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":"Mayumi Usami: Shizen kaiwa bunseki e no goyōronteki apurōchi: BTSJ kōpasu o riyōshite","authors":"Noriko Iwasaki","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2021-2046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2021-2046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"36 1","pages":"289 - 296"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73881907","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":"Correlating cognitive effort and noun role in spoken Japanese","authors":"Kevin Heffernan","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2021-2040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2021-2040","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Models of language processing assume that the cognitive cost to integrate a noun with a verb depends on the distance between the noun and the verb. Such models predict that subjects require more cognitive effort than objects in SOV languages, such as Japanese. This study tests that prediction by investigating apparent cognitive effort differences in topic, nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, and predicative noun usage, using two corpora of spoken Japanese. A cognitive effort index score was determined for each text in the two corpora. The correlations between index scores and usage rates for each grammatical role were determined. Accusative, dative, and genitive noun usage significantly correlated with cognitive effort index scores, but topic, nominative, and predicate noun usage rates did not. These results suggest that the cognitive cost of noun integration depends not only on distance but also on the grammatical role of the noun.","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"181 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83554150","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, Yosuke Momiyama, Yuriko Sunakawa, Shingo Imai, and Yasunari Imamura: Tagidōshi-bunseki no shin-tenkai to nihongo-kyōiku eno ōyō [New developments in the analysis of polysemous words and their application to Japanese language education]","authors":"Yukimi Sumi","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2021-2036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2021-2036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"51 1","pages":"133 - 140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78263422","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 apophonic compounds","authors":"Laurence Labrune, M. Irwin","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2021-2032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2021-2032","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper provides a comprehensive description and analysis of Japanese apophonic compounds, such as ama-gasa (ame + kasa), ko-kage (ki + kage) or kamu-tikara (kami + tikara), in which the initial element exhibits one of three different pairs of final vowel alternations. The three pairs involved are e ∼ a, i ∼ o, and i ∼ u. To determine the controlling factors for apophony, its morphological function, its overall characteristics and its interaction with other compositional devices of Japanese (mainly rendaku) we constructed a database of 2,322 compounds. Each compound has as an element at least one of 22 “apophonic nouns” which may undergo vowel alternation when the initial element in a compound. The core results of this study are that there exists a range of morphological, lexical and phonological factors which tend to favour or disfavour apophony. The phonological factors mostly pertain to the length of either element in the compound. Further, it was also found that apophony is generally not linked, either positively (redundancy of morphological devices) or negatively (economy of morphological devices), to rendaku.","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"51 1","pages":"25 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85158457","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":"Hisashi Noda: Nihongo gakushūsha no dokkai-katē [Reading process of learners of Japanese]","authors":"Chisato Danjo","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2021-2037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2021-2037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"186 1","pages":"141 - 146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72718296","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":"Noriko Yoshimura and Mineharu Nakayama: Dainigengo shūtoku-kenkyū eno sasoi: Riron kara jisshō e [An invitation to second language acquisition research: From theory to experiment]","authors":"Noriaki Yusa","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2021-2035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2021-2035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"101 1","pages":"125 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85497203","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":"What voiced obstruents symbolically represent in Japanese: evidence from the Pokémon universe","authors":"S. Kawahara, Gakuji Kumagai","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2021-2031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2021-2031","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Kawahara, Noto, and Kumagai (2018b) found that within the corpus of existing Pokémon names, the number of voiced obstruents in the characters’ names correlates positively with their weight, height, evolution levels and attack values. While later experimental studies to some extent confirmed the productivity of these sound symbolic relationships (e.g. Kawahara and Kumagai 2019a), they are limited, due to the fact that the visual images presented to the participants primarily differed with regard to evolution levels. The current experiments thus for the first time directly explored how each of these semantic dimensions—weight, height, evolution levels, and attack values—correlates with the number of voiced obstruents in nonce names. The results of two judgment experiments show that all of these parameters indeed correlate positively with the number of voiced obstruents in the names. Overall, the results show that a particular class of sounds—in our case, a set of voiced obstruents—can signal different semantic meanings within a single language, supporting the pluripotentiality of sound symbolism (Winter, Pérez-Sobrino, and Brown 2019). We also address another general issue that has been under-explored in the literature on sound symbolism; namely, its cumulative nature. In both of the experiments, we observe that two voiced obstruents evoke stronger images than one voiced obstruent, instantiating what is known as the counting cumulativity effect (Jäger and Rosenbach 2006).","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"7 1","pages":"3 - 24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90607641","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":"Creation of an intensifier in progress: a study of the Japanese adverb hutuuni","authors":"N. McGloin, Moeko Watanabe","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2021-2033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2021-2033","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper examines the emergent new usage of the Japanese adverb hutuuni. For most speakers of Japanese, this adverb means ‘ordinarily, usually, normally’, but among young adult speakers of Japanese, it has come to be used as an intensifier. Based on blog and conversation data as well as two surveys, the paper identifies wide ranging new senses of hutuuni, such as ‘very’, ‘fairly/pretty’, ‘contrary to or more than what I expected’, ‘not flattery’, and ‘honestly, speaking a true mind’. Focusing on its intensifier function, Imoto, Ryō. 2011. ‘Futsūni kawaī’-kō [A study of ‘Futsūni cute]. Shōgaku Ronshū 79(4). 59–75 proposes a scale analysis. Noticing that hutuuni typically occurs in a context where the expected level is set low, he argues that the function of hutuuni is to upgrade the level to the hutuu ‘standard’ level. He states that the intensifier usage is not the result of the semantic change of hutuu. The present study, on the other hand, suggests that the intensifier usage of hutuuni involves both syntactic and semantic change. Syntactically, hutuuni which is a verb modifier has come to modify adjectives, which has contributed to its new intensifier function. Semantically, we propose two possible paths to a degree word/intensifier for hutuuni, in line with the framework of the ‘subjectification’ and ‘intersubjectification’ of meaning proposed in Traugott, Elizabeth Closs. 2003. From subjectification to intersubjectification. In Raymond Hickey (ed.), Motives for language change, 124–139. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"38 1","pages":"69 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91305320","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":"Subjective constructions in polite discourse: negotiating between Speech-Act Empathy Hierarchy and social hierarchy","authors":"Harumi Minagawa","doi":"10.1515/jjl-2021-2034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2021-2034","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Using data from interviews and television programs where social demeanor must be observed by the speaker, this study examines what the Japanese speaker does when reporting a transitive event where the speaker is the Undergoer and the Actor is someone they are expected to express respect toward. The speaker’s decision in such contexts is influenced by two seemingly conflicting motivations, i.e. tell a story from a speaker’s perspective by placing empathy on self (the “Speech-Act Empathy Hierarchy”) (Kuno, Susumu & Etsuko Kaburaki. 1977. Empathy and syntax. Linguistic Inquiry 8(4). 627–672) or give up this privilege of empathy in consideration for the respected Actor in the event. The study suggests that social consideration takes precedence over of the Speech-Act Empathy Hierarchy unless both are satisfied simultaneously. This study identified further factors that appear to be at work: productivity of the construction, desire to portray themselves as an affected Undergoer of the event, and reluctance to convey a sense of benefit.","PeriodicalId":36519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Japanese Linguistics","volume":"1 3 1","pages":"97 - 123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78564835","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}