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ISBN 978-961-237-886-8
Irena Srdanović and Andrej Bekeš (eds.)
Irena SRDANOVIĆ (Ph.D. Tokyo Institute of Technology 2009; Ph.D. University of Ljubljana 2015) is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities Juraj Dobrila University of Pula (Croatia), where she established the Department of Asian Studies and the Japanese undergraduate and graduate degree study program. Her research interests are corpus linguistics and lexicography, Japanese language education, lexical semantics, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics. She is the author of Kolokacije in kolokacije na daljavo v japonskem jeziku: korpusni pristop [Collocations and distant collocations in Japanese language: corpus based approach] (Ljubljana University Press 2016), a co-author of Udžbenik japanskoga jezika Ippo ippo [ Japanese language textbook Ippo ippo] ( Juraj Dobrila University of Pula Press 2018) and a co-editor of Digital resources for learning Japanese (Bononia University Press 2018).
Language is a multifarious phenomenon, and so is language research. Language certainly does have its individual aspects, and yet, as linguists of many different persuasions have constantly pointed out, it is essentially a social phenomenon. Therefore, relying on introspection alone will not lead one any great distance towards a solid understanding of linguistic phenomena; the research of empirical data cannot be avoided.
THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE FROM AN EMPIRICAL PERSPECTIVE
Andrej BEKEŠ (Litt.D. University of Tsukuba 1986) is Professor Emeritus of the University of Ljubljana and one of the co-founders of the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts. His research interests cover text linguistics, text pragmatics, language policies, writing systems and Japanese as a second language. His publications include Tekusuto to shintakusu [Text and Syntax] (Kurosio Publishers 1987), Text and boundary: a sideways glance at textual phenomena in Japanese (Ljubljana University Press 2008), and as a co-author Nihongo bunkei jiten [A handbook of Japanese grammar patterns for teachers and learners] (Kurosio Publishers 1998/2015). He is also the founding editor of the journal Acta Linguistica Asiatica.
THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE FROM AN EMPIRICAL PERSPECTIVE CORPUS-BASED STUDIES AND STUDIES ON DISCOURSE Irena Srdanović and Andrej Bekeš (eds.)
Empirical language research has a long tradition in Japan. The wider paradigm shift away from more introspective approaches to language research, that started in the 1980s was in fact building on this tradition. This shift further accelerated with the advent of large-scale corpora in the past ten years. The Japanese Language From an Empirical Perspective presents the forefront in qualitative and quantitative empirical research on Japanese language. The monograph brings together ten chapters from prominent researchers in their respective fields. Individual chapters explore various original qualitative and quantitative approaches in the research of written and spoken discourse, applied corpus research and diachronic corpus research. Additionally, the monograph proposes English terminological equivalents of new notions current in Japanese discourse and corpus research. As such, the monograph is a meaningful addition to empirical language research. The primary target are linguists interested in Japanese discourse and corpus approaches to Japanese linguistics. However, because of the rich spectrum of methodological approaches, the potential readership is wider, spanning from specialists interested in theoretical and methodological issues to language teachers, advanced students of Japanese language, translators, and so on.
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