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Fluid orality in the discourse of Japanese popular culture /

This volume invites the reader into the world of pragmatic and discourse studies in Japanese popular culture. Through "character-speak", the book analyzes "ed speech in light (graphic) novels, the effeminate onee kotoba in talk shows, narrative character in keetai (mobile phone) novel...

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Main Author: Maynard, Senko K. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]
Subjects:
Japanese language > Discourse analysis.
Conversation analysis > Japan.
Oral communication > Japan.
Popular culture > Japan.
Sociolinguistics > Japan.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9789027267139
9027267138
ISSN:0988-842X ;
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Fluid Orality in the Discourse of Japanese Popular Culture
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • 1. Preamble
  • 2. Pragmatic studies of a speech genre
  • 3. The discourse of Japanese popular culture
  • 4. Data
  • 4.1 Selection
  • 4.2 Transcription and translation
  • Chapter 2. Fluid orality
  • 1. The orality-literacy debate and beyond
  • 1.1 From orality to literacy
  • 1.2 Secondary orality and digital orality
  • 1.3 Fluid orality in popular culture discourse
  • 2. Fluid orality in the discourse of Japanese popular culture
  • 2.1 Conversational narration and the centrality of orality
  • 2.2 Fictionalized variation and the fluidity of style shifts
  • 2.3 Simulated conversation in narration
  • 3. Speaker, speaking selves, and fluid selves
  • 3.1 Speaker, speaking selves, and partner
  • 3.2 The myth of the ideal and autonomous speaker
  • 3.3 Divided selves, "dividuals," and fluid selves
  • Chapter 3. Character and character-speak
  • 1. Character in the West and in Japan
  • 1.1 Emergence of the character in the West
  • 1.2 The character phenomenon in contemporary Japan
  • 2. Character in Japanese popular culture criticism
  • 3. Concepts of character and characteristic
  • 3.1 Defining character and characteristic
  • 3.2 Psychology of Japan's character culture
  • 4. Character-speak: Background
  • 4.1 Beyond Bakhtin: Heteroglossia, polyphony, and the character zone in popular culture
  • 4.2 Borrowed style as precursor to character-speak
  • 5. Character-speak: Manipulating characters and characteristics
  • 5.1 Character-speak and expressive meanings
  • 5.2 Character-speak and aspects of indexical signs
  • 5.3 Manipulating characters and characteristics
  • 6. Character-speak in context
  • 6.1 Character-speak and performance.
  • 6.2 Other approaches: Role language and utterance character
  • Chapter 4. Light novels Character-speak and variation in quoted speech
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Defining light novels
  • 1.2 Crossover and mixed genres
  • 2. Background: Quoted speech in novels and light novels
  • 2.1 Quoted speech in novels
  • 2.2 Simulating orality in quoted speech
  • 3. Quoted speech features in light novels
  • 3.1 Youth language
  • 3.2 Self-performed sound effects
  • 4. Creating characters through quoted speech
  • 4.1 Character-speak and fictional variations
  • 4.2 Character-differentiating quoted speech in Kino no Tabi
  • 5. Fluid orality and characteristics
  • 5.1 Fluidity of old-man language and archaic styles
  • 5.2 Fictionalized dialects and temporary characteristics
  • 5.3 Shiftng styles in quoted speech and characteristics
  • 6. Tsundere and conversational moves
  • 6.1 Tsundere character: Features and language
  • 6.2 Tsundere conversational moves in the Suzumya Haruhi series
  • 6.3 Particle yo and tsundere attitude
  • 7. Reflections
  • Chapter 5. Talk shows Fluid orality in gender-evoking variation
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Matsuko Derakkusu and media presence
  • 1.2 Masaharu Fukuyama and radio talk shows
  • 2. Background: Onee kotoba, gender, and language
  • 2.1 Beyond gendered and ideologized language
  • 2.2 Onee kotoba as a gender-evoking indexical sign
  • 2.3 Consumption of onee culture and onee character-speak in postmodern Japan
  • 3. Marketing the onee character: Matsuko Derakkusu
  • 3.1 Features of Matsuko's onee character-speak
  • 3.2 Criticizing, ordering, and self-deprecating
  • 3.3 Conversation management, audience involvement, and media savvy
  • 3.4 Fluidity of gender-evoking character-speak
  • 4. Fluid orality in playful voices: Masako, the Housewife
  • 4.1 Character presentation in Fukuyama Masaharu no SUZUKI Talking FM.
  • 4.2 Masako's character-speak and emotional expressions
  • 4.3 Giving advice in Masako's voice
  • 4.4 Grousing and scolding
  • 4.5 Fluid transitions: Masako, Masaharu, and Fukuyama
  • 5. Reflections
  • Chapter 6. Keetai novels: Narrator's character-speak in conversational narration
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Defining keetai novels
  • 1.2 Keetai novel as genre and culture
  • 1.3 Keetai novel as self-narrative and its readership
  • 2. Background: Novelistic discourse
  • 2.1 Approaches to the novel
  • 2.2 I-novel and keetai novel
  • 3. Language of narration in keetai novels
  • 3.1 Overview
  • 3.2 Conversational narration
  • 3.3 Fragmentation of speech
  • 3.4 Appealing to the reader
  • 4. Character-speak in self-narrative
  • 4.1 Self-awareness and narrator's character
  • 4.2 Narrator as tsukkomi character
  • 4.3 Internal conversation: Mediating quoted speech and narration
  • 5. Fluid orality through variation and rhetoric
  • 5.1 Yankii language and narrator's character
  • 5.2 Fluid style shifts and narrator's characteristics
  • 5.3 Narrator's performance through irony, punning, and mojiri
  • 6. Reflections
  • Chapter 7. Manga: Fluidity of multilayered speech in floating whispers
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Japanese manga and girls' manga
  • 1.2 NANA and Yamatonadeshiko Shichihenge
  • 2. Background: Internal monologue and visual signs in manga and girls' manga
  • 2.1 Speech balloons and thought bubbles
  • 2.2 Internal monologue in girls' manga
  • 2.3 Multimodal approaches to manga
  • 3. Fluid orality and polyphony in manga
  • 3.1 Internal monologue in Hotto Roodo
  • 3.2 Multilayered voices in Ribaazu Ejji
  • 4. Floating whispers in NANA and Yamatonadeshiko Shichihenge
  • 4.1 Floating whispers: Definition and function
  • 4.2 Floating whispers and visual context
  • 5. Multilayerd speech in NANA and Yamatonadeshiko Shichihenge.
  • 5.1 Multilayered internal monologue
  • 5.2 Unspoken conversation
  • 5.3 Narrative voice and inter-genre expressivity in floating whispers
  • 6. Character-speak and fluid orality in floating whispers
  • 6.1 Characters of Nana Komatsu and Nana Oosaki
  • 6.2 Contrasting Kyoohei with others
  • 6.3 Sunako's character-speak and visual context
  • 7. Reflections
  • Chapter 8. Drama: Fluid orality in place-evoking fictionalized variations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Dialect as a place-evoking variation
  • 1.2 Hanako to An and character identification
  • 1.3 Ama-chan: An overview
  • 1.4 Ama-chan: The story
  • 2. Background: Fictional dialect and temporary style
  • 2.1 Production of the fictional Sodegahama dialect
  • 2.2 Fictional variation, character, and characteristic
  • 3. Fluid orality in Ama-chan: Use and non-use of the Sodegahama dialect
  • 3.1 From dialect to standard speech
  • 3.2 Dialect awareness and meta-comment
  • 4. Character-speak of major participants in the drama
  • 4.1 Aki's character and her adventure in fictionalized variation
  • 4.2 Yui's character-speak and identity struggle
  • 4.3 Haruko's life journey and adopted variations
  • 5. Narrators' character-speak and polyphony
  • 5.1 Natsu and polyphonic narrative style
  • 5.2 Narrative voices: Contrasting Haruko and Aki
  • 5.3 Addressing audience and the narrator's character
  • 6. Reflections
  • Chapter 9. Reflections and aspirations
  • 1. Fluidity of characters and fluidity of speaking selves
  • 2. Toward pragmatic and discourse studies of speaking selves
  • Appendix: Presentation of data in Japanese orthography
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 5
  • Chapter 6
  • Chapter 7
  • Chapter 8
  • References
  • Data references
  • Light novels
  • Talk shows
  • Keetai novels
  • Manga
  • Television drama
  • Others
  • Author index
  • Subject index.

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