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Expressing Silence
Where Language and Culture Meet in Japanese
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2022
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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.
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Copyright year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-6924-8
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-6925-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
164
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Preface No access
Chapter One. Expressing Voids No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter Two. The Sound of Silence No access Pages 13 - 84
Chapter Three. Mimetics and Silence No access Pages 85 - 142
