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

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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.

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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 College London University of Trieste Bruce Fraser Emanuel Schegloff Boston University University of California at Los Angeles Thorstein Fretheim Deborah Schiffrin University of Trondheim Georgetown University John Heritage Paul O. Takahara University of California at Los Angeles Kansai Gaidai University Susan Herring Sandra Thompson University of Texas at Arlington University of California at Santa Barbara Masako K. Hiraga Teun A. Van Dijk St.Paul’s (Rikkyo) University University of Amsterdam David Holdcroft Richard J. Watts University of Leeds University of Berne Sachiko Ide Japan Women’s University Volume 97 Linguistic Emotivity: Centrality of place, the topic-comment dynamic, and an ideology of pathos in Japanese discourse by Senko K. Maynard Linguistic Emotivity Centrality of place, the topic–comment dynamic, and an ideology of pathos in Japanese discourse Senko K. Maynard Rutgers University John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia 8 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Linguistic emotivity : centrality of place, the topic-comment dynamic, and an ideology
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