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Expressing Silence

Where Language and Culture Meet in Japanese

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Expressing Silence

Where Language and Culture Meet in Japanese

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In Expressing Silence: Where Language and Culture Meet in Japanese, Natsuko Tsujimura discusses how silence is conceptualized and linguistically represented in Japanese. Languages differ widely in the specific linguistic and rhetorical modes through which vivid depictions of silence are achieved. In Japanese, sounds in nature evoke silence, and onomatopoeia plays an important role in simulating silent scenes. These linguistic mechanisms mediate the perception of the symbiotic relationship between sound and silence, a perception deeply embedded in the Japanese cultural experience. Expressing Silence brings the tools of both linguistic and cultural analysis in examining the remarkably rich array of representations of silence in Japanese language and culture, finding that depictions of silence through language cannot be understood without exploring what sound or silence mean to the speakers.

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Expressing Voids
Chapter 2: The Sound of Silence
Chapter 3: Mimetics and Silence
Chapter 4: Epilogue
References
Index
About the Author

Product details

Published Mar 03 2022
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 172
ISBN 9781498569248
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 3 b/w photos;
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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