Situated Meaning : : Inside and Outside in Japanese Self, Society, and Language /

Situated Meaning : : Inside and Outside in Japanese Self, Society, and Language / / ed. by Charles J. Quinn, Jane M. Bachnik.

Situated Meaning adds a new dimension, both literal and metaphoric, to our understanding of Japan. The essays in this volume leave the vertical axis of hierarchy and subordination-an organizing trope in much of the literature on Japan-and focus instead on the horizontal, interpreting a wide range of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Bachnik, Jane M.,
Brenneis, Donald L.,
College, Pitzer,
Hamabata, Matthews M.,
Kondo, Dorinne K.,
Molasky, Michael S.,
Quinn, Charles J.,
Rosenberger, Nancy R.,
Sukle, Robert J.,
Wetzel, Patricia J.,
HerausgeberIn:
Bachnik, Jane M.,
Quinn, Charles J.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]
©1994
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 5265
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 1 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD: SITUATED MEANING
  • PREFACE
  • NOTE ON ROMANIZATION
  • KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS AND ORTHOGRAPHIC CONVENTIONS
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • PART ONE. Indexing Self and Social Context
  • Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION : UCHI/SOTO: CHALLENGING OUR CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF SELF, SOCIAL ORDER, AND LANGUAGE
  • Chapter 2. THE TERMS UCHI ΑΝD SOTO AS WINDOWS ON A WORLD
  • Chapter 3. A MOVABLE SELF: THE LINGUISTIC INDEXING OF UCHI AND SOTO
  • Chapter 4. INDEXING HIERARCHY THROUGH JAPANESE GENDER RELATIONS
  • Chapter 5. UCHI/SOTO: CHOICES IN DIRECTIVE SPEECH ACTS IN JAPANESE
  • Chapter 6. INDEXING SELF AND SOCIETY IN JAPANESE FAMILY ORGANIZATION
  • PART TWO. Failure to Index: Boundary Disintegration and Social Breakdown
  • Chapter 7. UCHI NO KAISHA: COMPANY AS FAMILY?
  • Chapter 8. THE BATTLE TO BELONG: SELF-SACRIFICE AND SELF-FULFILLMENT IN THE JAPANESE FAMILY ENTERPRISE
  • Chapter 9. WHEN UCHI AND SOTO FELL SILENT IN THE NIGHT: SHIFTING BOUNDARIES IN SHIGA NAOYA'S "THE RAZOR"
  • Chapter 10. UCHI/SOTO: AUTHORITY AND INTIMACY, HIERARCHY AND SOLIDARITY IN JAPAN
  • PART THREE. Language as a Form of Life: Clines of Knowledge as Clines of Person
  • Chapter 11. UCHI/SOTO: TI P OF A SEMIOTIC ICEBERG? ,INSIDE' AND ,OUTSIDE' KNOWLEDGE IN THE GRAMMAR OF JAPANESE
  • INDEX

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