Systemic Functional Perspectives of JapaneseDescriptions and Applications
Edited by: Elizabeth A. Thomson, William Armour
Series: Functional Linguistics Hardback Price £55.00/$95.00 |    |
Description
This book is the first dedicated collection of systemic functional descriptions of Japanese. It represents the most recent, international work describing the system and structure of Japanese and how applications of the descriptions have been used in the fields of Computer Science and Education. The book consists of 10 chapters and is suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers of systemic functional and applied Japanese linguistics, as well for Japanese language teachers. The book is divided into two sections: descriptions and applications. Descriptions is organised into the three metafunctions: textual, interpersonal and ideational. Applications is organised into applications in Education and in Computing. The Education contributions are a collection of work on genre applications of SF theory to the teaching Japanese as a second/foreign language. The Computing contributions present the application of SF theory to the development of a Japanese language based computer operating system. The book includes a Foreword by Professor Noboru Yamaguchi, Tohoku University, considered to be one of the first linguists to explore systemic-functional perspectives of Japanese.
This book is the first dedicated collection of systemic functional descriptions of Japanese. It represents the most recent, international work describing the system and structure of Japanese and how applications of the descriptions have been used in the fields of Computer Science and Education. The book consists of 10 chapters and is suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers of systemic functional and applied Japanese linguistics, as well for Japanese language teachers. The book is divided into two sections: descriptions and applications. Descriptions is organised into the three metafunctions: textual, interpersonal and ideational. Applications is organised into applications in Education and in Computing. The Education contributions are a collection of work on genre applications of SF theory to the teaching Japanese as a second/foreign language. The Computing contributions present the application of SF theory to the development of a Japanese language based computer operating system. The book includes a Foreword by Professor Noboru Yamaguchi, Tohoku University, considered to be one of the first linguists to explore systemic-functional perspectives of Japanese.
Contents
Foreword (Noboru Yamaguchi, Tohoku University)
1. Systemic Functional Theory: Description and Application (Elizabeth Thomson and William Armour)
Part I: Description
2. How to Argue in Japanese: A Systemic Functional Interpretation of the Logico-semantic Relations in Japanese Exposition (Motoki Sano and Elizabeth Thomson, University of Wollongong)
3. Description of MOOD in Japanese: Examining Mood Types in a Selected Set of Texts (Nagisa Fukui, University of New South Wales)
4. The System of THEME in Japanese (Elizabeth Thomson)
5. Classifying Natural Phenomena through Language: Lexicogrammatical Resources for Constructing Taxonomies in Japanese Biology Textbooks (Chie Hayakawa, Meijo and Chukyo University)
6. Nominalisation and Nouniness as Meaning Strategies in Japanese Political Manifestos (Kinuko Suto and Christopher Barnard, Teikyo University)
Part II: Application
7. Learning How to Mean in Japanese as an Additional Language (William Armour and Reiko Furuya, Nagoya University)
8. Modelling Writing: Using the Genre Approach in the Japanese as a Foreign Language Classroom (Yuko Ramzan and Elizabeth Thomson, University of Wollongong)
9. A Computational Model of Language in Context and its Application to the Understanding of Japanese Text (Noriko Ito, Doshisha University and Toru Sugimoto, Shibaura Institute of Technology)
10. The Components and Structure of the Context Base, a Database for Computer Text Generation (Yusuke Takahashi, Justsystem Corporation, Ichiro Kobayashi, Ochanomizu University, and Michiaki Iwazume, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
Specifications
| ISBN-10 (Hardback) | 1845530535 |
| ISBN-13 (Hardback) | 9781845530532 |
| Price (Hardback) | £55.00/$95.00 |
| Publication Date | September 2010 |
| Pages | 256 |
| Size | 234 x 156mm |
| Readership | academics, research students and language teachers |
| Book Status | Not yet published |
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