Linguistic Emotivity: Centrality Of Place, The Topic-comment Dynamic, And An Ideology Of Pathos In Japanese Discourse

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In this text on emotives in the Japanese language, Senko examines linguistic signs and strategies on varied levels, for example lexicon, syntax and text, including those signs that have not been traditionally identified as emotives. He takes the position that although some linguistic signs and strategies may seem to carry the propositonal meaning alone, they always express, in varying degrees, emotive meanings as well. By concentrating on seemingly emotionless signs, a stronger case is made that emotivity is pervasive in all aspects of language. Senko identifies and analyses a number of emotives in contemporary Japanese discourse to illustrate how rich and critical linguistic emotivity is in language and its use.

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Linguistic Emotivity: Centrality of place, the topic–comment dynamic, and an ideology of pathos in Japanese discourse Senko K. Maynard John Benjamins Publishing Company Linguistic Emotivity Pragmatics & Beyond New Series Editor Andreas H. Jucker Justus Liebig University Giessen, English Department Otto-Behaghel-Strasse 10, D-35394 Giessen, Germany e-mail: [email protected] Associate Editors Jacob L. Mey University of Southern Denmark Herman Parret Belgian National Science Foundation, Universities of Louvain and Antwerp Jef Verschueren Belgian National Science Foundation, University of Antwerp Editorial Board Shoshana Blum-Kulka Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni Hebrew University of Jerusalem University of Lyon 2 Jean Caron Claudia de Lemos Université de Poitiers University of Campinas, Brazil Robyn Carston Marina Sbisà University Colle

Linguistic Emotivity: Centrality Of Place, The Topic-comment Dynamic, And An Ideology Of Pathos In Japanese Discourse

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