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Exploring Japaneseness On Japanese Enactments of Culture and Consciousness

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Ray T. Donahue, ed.

ISBN: 1-56750-541-4

ISBN-13: 978-1-56750-541-2

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480 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 4/30/2002

List Price: $39.95 (UK Sterling Price: £27.95)

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Description: Today, the Japanese nation faces an identity crisis as it attempts to contend with the misfortunes endured in the 1990s: a downward economic spiral, a renewed crime wave, political corruption, and the failure of the government to take bold, new steps in response. Exploring Japaneseness, a collection of new essays from many of the leading scholars and researchers in Japanese studies, including specialists in communication, linguistics, anthropology, psychology, and others, attempts to address the current state of what it means to be Japanese. The central questions of this volume are those that the nation of Japan is itself considering as it begins the third millennium; Exploring Japaneseness provides a multidisciplinary perspective on what some of the answers might be.

Suitable for the informed layman and the specialist alike, the collection deals with such varied subjects as language, nationalism, rhetoric, and mass media, laying a foundation for inquiries into Japanese national and cultural identities by examining aspects of Japaneseness as enacted through everyday discourse or communication. By exploring the culture from the inside out, these esteemed scholars provide an expansive portrait of a complex and ever-evolving nation.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Japanese Core Cultural Concepts
Guideposts for Exploring Japaneseness by Ray T. Donahue
UCHI and SOTO as Cultural and Linguistic Metaphors by Seiichi Makino
Japanese Development: Person and Nation
The Sociocultural Discourse of Poetry: Japanese Moral and Personal Development as Reflected in Elementary School Textbooks by Tsutomu Yokota
Communications as Connections Between Different Japanese Realms: K-ots-u and the Case of Children's Illustrated Books by Sylvie Guichard-Anguis
Japanese Nation and State
Discourse and Cultural Attitudes: Japanese Imperial Honorifics and the Open Society by Noriko Akimoto Sugimori and Masako Hamada
Aisatsu: Ritualized Politeness as Sociopolitical and Economic Management in Japan by Brian J. McVeigh
The Great Hanshin Earthquake: The Japanese Response by Eamon McCafferty
Through the Ideological Filter: Japanese Translations of a Western News Source by Christopher Barnard
Japanese Nationalism and Social Minority Relations
Deconstructing the Japanese National Discourse: Laymen's Beliefs and Ideology by Rotem Kowner
Koreans--A Mistreated Minority in Japan: Hopes and Challenges for Japan's True Internationalization by Soo-im Lee
Nikkei Brazilians in Japan: The Ideology and Symbolic Context Faced by Children of This New Ethnic Minority by Tomoko Sekiguchi
Japanese Language
Sources of Emotion in Japanese Comics: Da, Nan(i), and the Rhetoric of Futaku by Senko K. Maynard
Narrative as a Reflection of Culture and Consciousness: Developmental Aspects by Masahiko Minami
The Impact of English on the Japanese Language by Bates L. Hoffer
Japanese Rhetoric
Japan's Attempted Enactments of Western Debate Practice in the Sixteenth and the Nineteenth Centuries by Roichi Okabe
Japanese Identities in Written Communication: Politics and Discourses by Ryuko Kubota
Frames in American and Japanese Political Discourse by Hiroko Furo
Japanese Pragmatics
Speech Act Realizaton Patterns of Japanese Social Refusal: The Question Strategy by Nagiko Iwata Lee
Japaneseness Manifested in Apology Styles by Naomi Sugimoto
Vagueness Is Not Always Polite: Defensive Concession in Japanese Everyday Discourse by Reiko Hayashi
Japanese Mass Media and Internet Communications
Japanese Advertising Discourse: Reconstructing Images by Brian Moeran
TV Commercials as Cultural Performance: The Case of Japan by Masayuki Nakanishi
Projecting Peer Approval in Advertising: Japan versus U.S. Seventeen Magazine by Michael L. Maynard
Global and Local in Computer-Mediated Communication: A Japanese Newsgroup by Jane W. Yamazaki

About the Author: RAY T. DONAHUE is Professor of Intercultural Communication at Nagoya Gakuin University in Japan. He is the author of Japanese Culture and Communication: Critical and Cultural Analysis and co-author of Diplomatic Discourse: International Conflict at the United Nations (Ablex, 1997).

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