Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

日本語言語学－言語学習者のための入門　第2版
Yamaguchi, Toshiko, Japanese Linguistics in Use: An Introduction for Language Learners. 2nd ed. 496 pp. 2025:8 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <750-1687>
ISBN 978-1-350-29060-0 hard ¥28,600.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00
ISBN 978-1-350-29059-4 paper ¥10,006.- (税込) GB￡ 34.99

Introducing readers to all key areas of Japanese linguistics, this book brings the theory to life through a range of real-world examples of texts and materials that students might encounter in contemporary Japan. Throughout, the author introduces readers to linguistic notions, supporting them to further their understanding of the forms and functions of the language as well as increasing familiarity with social and cultural aspects via examples from manga, newspapers, food packaging, light novels and more. Combining and building on the very best of Japanese Linguistics and Japanese Language in Use, this book covers: ? Writing systems ? Vocabulary strata ? Word and sentence structures and meanings ? Figurative language ? Language and culture ? Speech and thought. It also contains a wealth of new examples not explored in the previous volumes, texts translated from English to Japanese and additional resources including a companion website hosting translations, quizzes and commentaries to the book's activities.

B.デシェン著　文法と語彙の間の境界－日本語の動詞の形態論からの証明
de Chene, Brent, The Boundary between Grammar and Lexicon: Evidence from Japanese verb morphology. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 368) 267 pp. 2025:2 (J. Benjamins, NE) <745-1213>
ISBN 978-90-272-1912-1 hard ¥29,975.- (税込) EUR 125.00

All linguists recognize that competence in a natural language involves knowledge of a lexicon or dictionary; most assume that it also involves knowledge of a grammatical system. Just where the boundary between the lexicon and the grammar lies, however, is a question on which there is little consensus. This problem arises in particular with regard to the field of morphology, with many morphologists taking all morpheme combinations to result from the operation of the syntactic computational system and many others assuming that morphological units like stems and words are either lexically listed or created by nonsyntactic means. The present study, using Japanese and Ryukyuan verbal morphology as its primary database, argues that evidence from the syntactic branch of the grammar and evidence from the phonological branch of the grammar converge on the conclusion that, while inflectional morphology is fully syntactic, derivational morphology has properties that militate against a syntactic treatment. The boundary between grammar and lexicon, then, falls at the boundary between inflection and derivation, rendering morphology "split" between syntactic and nonsyntactic subparts. The book should be of interest not only to morphologists, but to all concerned with the distinction between grammatical and lexical competence.

東泉裕子、柴﨑礼士郎編　中国語・日本語・韓国語における中国語の複合語からの語用論的標識の出現
Higashiizumi, Yuko / Shibasaki, Reijirou (eds.), The Emergence of Pragmatic Markers from Chinese Compounds in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. (Studies in Pragmatics 26) 380 pp. 2025:6 (Brill, NE) <744-1553>
ISBN 978-90-04-73083-0 hard ¥35,730.- (税込) EUR 149.00

The Emergence of Pragmatic Markers from Chinese Compounds in Chinese, Japanese and Korean offers a new perspective on the evolution of pragmatic markers in language contact and grammaticalization, drawing on data-driven and diachronic studies of Chinese compounds. All the contributors to this volume address the issue of whether compounds of Chinese origin have grammaticalized into discourse markers or pragmatic markers from their earlier lexical forms, either similarly across these languages or in distinct, language-specific ways. The findings presented in this volume suggest that the written-contact-based grammaticalization in these East Asian languages is fundamentally different from the spoken-contact-based grammaticalization reported in many previous studies.

日本語におけるオンラインでの謝罪
Diegoli, Eugenia, Online Apologies in Japanese. (Studies in Pragmatics) 200 pp. 2025:4 (Brill, NE) <740-1595>
ISBN 978-90-04-69146-9 hard ¥28,536.- (税込) EUR 119.00

Apologies are ubiquitous in contemporary societies, yet their meanings and functions are rarely straightforward. Online Apologies in Japanese provides a comprehensive account of how three Japanese expressions commonly considered apologetic (gomen, su(m)imasen and moshiwake arimasen) work in a data set collected from the Q&A website Yahoo! Chiebukuro. The focus is on three variables: their pragmatic functions, the discursive strategies they co-occur with, and the events and behaviours that warrant them. Theoretically, this book introduces a combination of established and emerging approaches in the field of pragmatics. Methodologically, it brings together corpus linguistics and discourse analysis for the study of Japanese. En route, it contains numerous insights on the speech act of apology, (im)politeness and related areas in a non-Western context.

小川芳樹編　形態格とTopic/Focusの理論－日本語他における共時的変異と通時的変化
Ogawa, Yoshiki (ed.), Theories of Morphological Case and Topic/Focus: Synchronic Variation and Diachronic Change in Japanese and Beyond. 450 pp. 2025:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <739-1071>
ISBN 978-3-031-68314-5 hard ¥38,364.- (税込) EUR 159.99

This edited book brings together studies on morphological case in Japanese, English, and Bantu languages, among others, from morphosyntactic, semantic and historical perspectives. Languages are divided into two types in terms of case: nominative-accusative languages and ergative-absolutive languages. Even if we limit our attention to nominative-accusative languages, morphological case on subjects and objects can vary across languages or even within a single language, either synchronically or diachronically. For instance, certain stative predicates in Japanese allow their subjects and objects to be marked with dative and nominative case, respectively, and subjects in adnominal clauses in Japanese can be marked with genitive case; moreover, genitive subject marking in adnominal clauses has decreased over the past few centuries. Licensing relationships between predicates and cases can also have idiolectal, dialectal, and/or geographical micro-variations and intergenerational and/or diachronic micro-change. This book draws parallels and examines differences between examples of European, Asian and African languages, and discusses whether and how licensing of certain morphological cases (especially, subject marking) is related to the grammatical functions such as Topic and Focus. It will be of interest to researchers in Theoretical Linguistics, particularly those involved with Language Variation and Change, Linguistic Typology, Morphology and Syntax, and Generative Grammar.

日本語の単音節の不定冠詞必携
Tomizawa, Sadatoshi, Essential Single-Syllable Japanese Particles: The Basis for Sentence Construction and Meaning. 352 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <738-1552>
ISBN 978-1-032-86436-5 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-86431-0 paper ¥11,436.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Unlike traditional Japanese particle reference books, 'Essential Single-Syllable Japanese Particles' is a revolutionary hybrid: a functionality-based guide and workbook designed to deconstruct and conquer the complexities of the 14 most-commonly used single-syllable Japanese particles, such as ?/wa, ?/ga, ?/de, ?/no, and ?/ni. Unlike their easily translatable multi-syllable counterparts like ??/kara meaning "from" or ??/node "because," these single-syllable powerhouses often defy direct translation and carry a variety of functions, even sometimes within the same sentence. Readers are encouraged to dive deep into their multiple roles, understand their nuances, and master them through targeted exercises. This innovative approach unlocks the secrets of these multifaceted particles, paving the way for confident and fluent Japanese communication. This book is for teachers and learners alike, and comes with many MP3 audio resources to further engage the learning process.

追加言語としての日本語の学習におけるジェンダー、人種、ネイティブ・スピーカーのイデオロギー
Yoshida, Maki, Negotiating Gendered Language and Social Identities: Gender, Race and Native Speaker Ideology in Learning Japanese as an Additional Language. 232 pp. 2025:2 (Routledge, UK) <737-2039>
ISBN 978-1-032-65505-5 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This book explores gendered language and gender identities negotiated by seven tertiary students of Japanese as an additional language (JAL) in Australia. It demonstrates that while participants are familiar with gendered Japanese as linguistic resources, their self- positioned and ascribed 'learnersness', 'nonnative-speakerness' and 'non- Japaneseness' both inside and outside classroom contexts greatly impact the targeted negotiations. It argues that these ascribed social identities encourage participants to adopt 'correct' (gendered) Japanese; however, what exactly this 'correctness' means differs for each JAL participant, depending on their other reflective and perceived social identities-such as gender, age, class, race and English 'native- speakerness'.This book draws on the conclusions on the implications of discourses and practices concerning native- speaker status, gender and race in Japanese language education. While the initial focus is on gendered Japanese and gender identity, this book subsequently expands that the participants' negotiation of gendered Japanese and gender identity is complicatedly intertwined with negotiations of other social identities such as native- speaker status, race and age, with native-speaker status saliently affecting the way they position themselves and are positioned by their interlocutors. This book analyses the participants' language resources, spoken and/ or written Japanese interactions and one-on-one and focus- group interviews and presents easily understood findings for readers who are interested in SLA, Japanese, language and/ or identity studies.This is the first book to holistically examine Australia- based tertiary students' Japanese language learning experience and Japanese interactions with regards to (gendered) language, identities and discursive power relations in a global and multilingual world.

言語の抑圧に抵抗するアイヌ
Samata, Susan, Ainu of Japan Resisting the Suppression of Languages: An All Obliterated Tongue. 192 pp. 2025:1 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <736-912>
ISBN 978-1-350-44863-6 hard ¥27,170.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00 *

This volume shows that, by moving away from code models that foster restrictive perceptions of language as learned words and rules, and towards an ecolinguistics capable of integrating with concepts of embodied cognition, it is possible to recognise a broad range of connections with a language from which an individual or community has become estranged. Using the Ainu of Japan as an example and comparator, this book reviews historical and contemporary suppression of languages as a means of, or as a bi-product of, the suppression of their speakers.Preservation of the Ainu language, which had no written form, has been central to official culture promotion programs, but the language has steadily declined in use. The Ainu experience has much in common with that of communities taken over and suppressed by oppressive forces in other countries and spans rural and urban contexts. Susan Samata examines the historical, social and ecolinguistic contexts of Ainu, with particular emphasis on presentation and perception in daily life. She also considers how aspects of ecolinguistic theory may be mapped onto museum practices, television and cinema, popular literature, and the promotion of tourism. These are then compared to the sociolinguistic situations of a selection of other languages and cultures in China, North America and Scandinavia. By highlighting points of similarity and dissimilarity, Samata demonstrates the factors that operate in the suppression of people and their languages and suggests ways in which the perspective described may support resistance to suppression and assimilation, not least in language teaching areas.

コンセプト・ベースの言語指導－日本語教授における語法ベースの言語学と社会文化理論
Masuda, Kyoko / Snyder Ohta, Amy / Tsujihara, Rie, Concept-based Language Instruction: Usage-based Linguistics and Sociocultural Theory in Teaching Japanese. (Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics) 320 pp. 2025:1 (Routledge, UK) <735-1162>
ISBN 978-1-032-62860-8 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This volume showcases how concept-based language instruction (C-BLI) can be effectively integrated into foreign language instruction.C-BLI is grounded in the relationship between theory, research, and practice, incorporating visual aids called SCOBAs (schemas for a complete orientating basis of action) designed to teach accurate scientific concepts. SCOBAs materialize L2 usage-based linguistic and cultural concepts to create tools that promote conceptual understanding and internalization. Three overview chapters lay out the book's sociocultural theoretic foundations, the role of mediation, usage-based linguistics, and the concept of subjective construal; internalization and its role in re-mediating the mind for L2 learning; and L2 pragmatics teaching and assessment. Subsequent chapters enact praxis via classroom research on C-BLI. Each study focuses on a difficult-to-acquire area of Japanese pragmatics and/or grammar, incorporating SCOBAs that teach core concepts; instruction moves from SCOBA-mediated interactive lecture to internalization tasks involving languaging to language practice. Each chapter concludes with a section for critical reflection to inform future research and materials design.With its focus on research-teaching connections via praxis elucidating the power of linking concept-based language instruction with usage-based linguistics, this book will interest students and scholars of second language acquisition, language teaching and learning, applied linguistics, Japanese, and Asian languages.Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

日本語の歴史の回復のために音調のデータを用いる
Boer, Elisabeth M. de, Using Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History. Ed. by J. M. Unger. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 365) 130 pp. 2024:8 (J. Benjamins, NE) <732-1400>
ISBN 978-90-272-1496-6 hard ¥25,179.- (税込) EUR 105.00

This book challenges several assumptions commonly encountered in Japanese dialectology: that the pitch-accent analysis of modern Tokyo Japanese is an appropriate basis for describing the suprasegmental phonology of other dialects and earlier stages of Japanese; that the Kyoto-type dialects have been more conservative than dialects to their east and west; that the first split in proto-Japanese was the separation of proto-Ryukyuan; and so on. De Boer brings together evidence from recent fieldwork, premodern texts, and other sources to establish a theory of dialect divergence that avoids the problems these assumptions entail. Building on De Boer 2010, this book brings the author's theory up to date with research published in the interim, explains why Japanese is best understood as a restricted tone language, and why mergers in the large tone classes of nouns and verbs are especially reliable markers of dialect divergence.

日本語の受益者格構文の発達と習得
Fujinaga-Gordon, Kiyono, The Development and Acquisition of Japanese Benefactive Constructions: A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis. (Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory 24) 210 pp. 2024:10 (Brill, NE) <726-1475>
ISBN 978-90-04-69144-5 hard ¥27,337.- (税込) EUR 114.00

If you were to travel to Japan, you would likely hear 'giving' and 'receiving' verbs in conversations quite frequently. In Japanese, giving and receiving verbs are not only used to describe an object being transferred, but also metaphorically, for example to describe giving/receiving a favor or involvement in an event. Giving and receiving verbs in all of these situations are known as benefactive constructions. Role and Reference Grammar analysis allows us to analyze which structures of benefactive constructions correspond to different meanings. This book will explore the historic evolution of Japanese benefactive constructions and how children acquire these constructions.

D.ロング、今村圭介著　太平洋地域における日本語
Long, Daniel / Imamura, Keisuke, The Japanese Language in the Pacific Region. (Routledge Studies in East Asian Linguistics) 320 pp. 2024:8 (Routledge, UK) <723-1446>
ISBN 978-1-032-50144-4 hard ¥44,330.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00 *

Long and Imamura examine language contact phenomena in the Asia Pacific region in the context of early 20th-century colonial history, focusing on the effects the Japanese language continues to have over island societies in the Pacific.Beginning in the early 20th century when these islands were taken over by the Japanese Empire and continuing into the 21st century, the book examines 5,150 Japanese-origin loanwords used in 14 different languages. It delves into semantic, phonological, and grammatical changes in these loanwords that form a fundamental part of the lexicons of the Pacific Island languages, even now in the 21st century. The authors examine the usage of Japanese kana for writing some of the local languages and the pidginoid phenomena of Angaur Island. Readers will gain a unique understanding of the Japanese language's usage in the region from colonial times through the post-war period and well into the current century.Researchers, students, and practitioners in the fields of sociolinguistics, language policy, and Japanese studies will find this book particularly useful for the empirical evidence it provides regarding language contact situations and the various Japanese language influences in the Asia Pacific region. The authors also offer accompanying e-resources that help to further illustrate the examples found in the book.

新里瑠美子、岩崎勝一著　沖縄語の基礎－会話から文法まで
Shinzato, Rumiko / Iwasaki, Shoichi, Basic Okinawan: From Conversation to Grammar. 277 pp. 2024:6 (U. Hawai'i Pr., US) <719-1627>
ISBN 978-0-8248-9365-1 paper ¥7,068.- (税込) US$ 34.00 *

The first Okinawan language textbook written for English-speakers, Basic Okinawan: From Conversation to Grammar is a groundbreaking work that will help students develop conversational skills and build a solid foundational understanding of the language's grammar and vocabulary. The lessons are geared for students learning in the classroom or on their own and do not assume knowledge of Japanese.The ten learner-centered units in Part I systematically and incrementally introduce grammar and vocabulary through the story of Niko, an American exchange student in Okinawa. Each unit offers authentic dialogues focused around cultural themes, followed by concise grammar and vocabulary explanations, ample exercises, and situation-based applications. Lessons conclude with cultural notes that advance the unit's themes, linking language learning with a wide range of disciplines such as history, geography, literature, religion, and popular culture. The last unit ties Niko's final experiences in Okinawa to a well-known saying: Ichariba choodee (Once we meet, we are friends forever). Woven throughout the story are humorous and thoughtful anecdotes that will inspire students to explore Okinawan language and culture further. Part II's eight sections explain the grammar introduced in Part I--for example, parts of speech and sentence types--arranged by topic. This topical organization allows students to review grammar points from a fresh perspective that both augments and reinforces what was learned in Part I. In addition to the Appendix, which contains comprehensive vocabulary and construction lists with cross-references to sections in Part I, students should consult the companion dictionary and grammar, Mitsugu Sakihara's Okinawan-English Word Book. A references section lists resources for further reading and study.Basic Okinawan presents a natural yet structured approach to the language that will engage students and connect them with Okinawan culture. An answer key to the exercises and audio files for lesson dialogues are available online.

外国語学習における自己概念－日本人言語学習者の長期的研究
Yoshida, Reiko, Self-Concept in Foreign Language Learning: A Longitudinal Study of Japanese Language Learners. (Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics) 184 pp. 2024:5 (Routledge, UK) <715-1822>
ISBN 978-1-032-48483-9 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This book explores self-concept in foreign language (FL) learning, tracing the trajectories of a group of Japanese language learners at an Australian university to illuminate new insights about the factors impacting positive self-concept and implications for language learning more broadly.The volume calls attention to the ways in which learners' perception of themselves as FL learners plays a fundamental role in FL learning. Drawing on data from a longitudinal study, including student diaries, interviews and classroom observations, Yoshida outlines shifts in self-concept as learners progress from secondary school to university courses to study abroad and beyond. The book demonstrates how the learner journey is marked by a growing recognition of the importance of practice for achievement but also a greater sense of self-consciousness, with learners' agency in creating opportunities for themselves to practice their FL as a key factor in improving self-concept over time. This work offers unique observations about self-concept for learners who already 'have' global English as a first language, inspiring ways forward for future research and language teaching in other under-studied languages.The book will appeal to students and researchers in applied linguistics, SLA and foreign language learning, as well as stakeholders in Japanese language programs.

日本語における情報の際立ち
Shimojo, Mitsuaki, Salience of Information in Japanese: Discourse and the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface. 301 pp. 2025:5 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <713-1669>
ISBN 978-1-009-42182-9 hard ¥27,170.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00 *

Salience' is a linguistic phenomenon whereby information that is 'given', or 'new', is distributed and presented within a sentence in particular ways that convey its relevance. Although it has been widely described as the speaker's linguistic choices based on the hearer's perspective, it has received less attention as the speaker's manipulations of the hearer's cognitive states. This timely study redresses that balance by analysing several morphosyntactic phenomena in Japanese, drawing on a wide range of authentic language examples. Taking a functionalist perspective, it brings together studies of grammar and discourse, which are often described separately, and deploys the combined grammar-discourse approach in Role and Reference Grammar, the structural-functionalist theory in which syntax, semantics, and pragmatics are equally central to our understanding of language. It also offers an analysis of second language (L2) learners' Japanese discourse, and demonstrates the relevance of that analysis to issues outside of traditional second language research.

Jarosz, Aleksandra, Descriptive Grammar and Diachrony of Kurima: A Minority South Ryukyuan Language of the Miyako Islands. (Languages of Asia 29) 575 pp. 2023:12 (Brill, NE) <708-1539>
ISBN 978-90-04-68053-1 hard ¥45,322.- (税込) EUR 189.00 *

Spoken on Kurima, a miniscule island in the Miyakojima municipality in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, Kurima-Miyako is a South Ryukyuan topolect, a regional variant of the Miyako language. With most fluent speakers aged 80 or older and the island's depopulation progressing, the topolect of Kurima faces imminent extinction, a reflection of a common pattern in the Ryukyus, whereupon the vernaculars of small islands and isolated remote areas have been facing multifold minorization for decades on the part of the dominant variety/varieties of the area (Shimoji and Hirara in the case of Kurima), Okinawan, and standard Japanese. Responding to the urgent task of producing a comprehensive description while it still has native speakers, the present volume is the first ever attempt at a systemic presentation of the Kurima topolect in any language. It also uses comparative evidence from Ryukyuan and Mainland Japonic languages to provide new proto-language reconstructions and offer insights into the history of Japonic languages.

佐藤豊他著　韓国語と日本語の比較統語論
Sato, Yutaka / Cho, Sungdai, The Comparative Syntax of Korean and Japanese. (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax) 320 pp. 2023:12 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <707-1464>
ISBN 978-0-19-889646-3 hard ¥25,740.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

This book provides a detailed survey of Korean and Japanese syntax from a comparative perspective, based within a generative framework. Yukata Sato and Sungdai Cho demonstrate that while the two languages exhibit remarkably similar morphosyntactic features, they behave differently in specific types of construction, with the main differences observed in genitive marking, sentence negation, Negative Polarity Items, the formation of causatives, and passivization. The book also explores pragmatic and sociolinguistic issues in the two languages, and shows that they differ in the perception and realization of 'givenness' as a topic marker and in the influence of relationships of power and distance on the use of honorifics. The authors further offer additional context by exploring the typological relationship between Japanese and Korean and the surrounding languages such as Ainu, and the Chinese and Altaic languages, as well as providing socio-cultural and historical background.

水口志乃扶、立石浩一著　日本語の生産と知覚
Mizuguchi, Shinobu / Tateishi, Koichi, Prominence in a Pitch Language: The Production and Perception of Japanese. 142 pp. 2023:6 (Lexington Books, US) <704-1446>
ISBN 978-1-7936-4585-2 hard ¥18,711.- (税込) US$ 90.00 *

This work examines the way in which prominence-a perceptual feature that is highlighted by speakers as being important through prosodic, syntactic, and semantic cues-is marked and perceived in Japanese. Drawing on extensive quantitative data, the authors argue that Japanese, unlike non-agglutinative languages, marks prominence on content words as well as function morphemes, that local F0 boost and boundary pitch movement (BPM) are the cues to mark prominence, that the domain of the focal prominence differs on which cue it is loaded with, and that BPM is possibly aligned to function morphemes and invokes a pragmatic implicature.

Angeles, Andrew, Endangered Compound Prosody in Kansai Japanese: Implications for the Syntax-Prosody Interface. (Endangered and Lesser-Studied Languages and Dialects 2) 340 pp. 2024 (Brill, NE) <702-1811>
ISBN 978-90-04-64464-9 hard ¥28,536.- (税込) EUR 119.00 *

This book examines the diverse prosody of compound nouns in Kansai Japanese, with a special focus on a class of compounds with particularly variable prosody, whose unique prosody is potentially endangered due to their structure and influence from Tokyo Japanese. These compounds serve as important evidence for recursion in prosodic structure in theories of the syntax-prosody interface, as they simultaneously resemble not only other compound words but also non-compound phrases, making them valuable test cases for compound prosodic structure. This book discusses potential reasons for these compounds' prosodic variabilty and what may condition their unique prosody, based on results from novel fieldwork. A unified account of compound prosody in Kansai and three other Japanese dialects is also presented.

Cinato, Franck / Lahaussois, Aimee / Whitman, John B. (eds.), Glossing Practice: Comparative Perspectives. 272 pp. 2023:1 (Lexington Books, US) <700-2666>
ISBN 978-1-7936-1280-9 hard ¥22,869.- (税込) US$ 110.00 *

This volume is the first book to focus specifically on the topic of comparative glossing. It brings together new research on glossing practices from traditions in both the West and East Asia, with a focus on Japan. It also touches on the relation between glossing in the medieval manuscript tradition and the modern linguistic use of the gloss. Its purpose is to present a sample of the most recent studies on glossing as it is practiced across very different parts of the world, highlighting the many shared features found across space and time.Glosses take many forms and serve numerous functions according to when and where they are produced. They constitute a cross-cultural phenomenon anchored in language, and are the manifestation of hermeneutic processes involved in the transfer of knowledge from one linguistic area to another. Glosses are an integral part of all the stages of this transfer, which is characterized by the necessity to decode and explain the message, encompassing basic grammatical commentary and wider exegetical discussions.

迫田久美子、白井恭弘、P.パルデシ編　第二言語として日本語を習得する
Sakoda, Kumiko / Shirai, Yasuhiro / Pardeshi, P. (eds.), Acquiring Japanese as a Second Language: Corpus-based Investigation into the Nature of Japanese Interlanguage. 224 pp. 2022:12 (Routledge, UK) <695-2205>
ISBN 978-1-138-91575-6 hard ¥30,030.- (税込) GB￡ 105.00

This book is an investigation of an unprecedented learner corpus systematically collected from learners of Japanese as a second or foreign language in 20 areas of the world. It addresses the issues of second language acquisition in general, and of Japanese in particular. In the 50s and 60s the main factor underlying the errors committed by foreign language learners was considered to be 'language transfer.' In the 70s it became increasingly clear that learners with different L1s commit similar mistakes in the acquisition of a given L2. It was proposed that the main source of the errors was not 'language transfer' but a potentially universal 'inter language' which learners construct on their transition trajectory from L1 to L2. In the 80s various other approaches such as 'universal grammar', 'monitor model', 'competition model' evolved, all aiming to account for the errors of L2 learners. Against this backdrop, this proposed volume offers new insights to the theory of language acquisition by focusing on a major Asian language, viz Japanese, and makes a significant contribution to the theory of language acquisition through an investigation of empirical data of learners of Japanese with as many as 12 different L1s and varied typological profiles.

細川尚子著　借用語と日本人のアイデンティティ
Hosokawa, Naoko, Loanwords and Japanese Identity: Inundating or Absorbed? (Routledge Studies in East Asian Translation) 208 pp. 2023:2 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2024 <690-1458>
ISBN 978-1-032-05426-1 hard ¥35,750.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-05430-8 paper ¥11,436.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

Loanwords and Japanese Identity: Inundating or Absorbed? provides an in-depth examination of public discussions on lexical borrowing in the Japanese language. The main objective of this book is to explore the relationship between language and identity through an analysis of public attitudes towards foreign loanwords in contemporary Japanese society. In particular, the book uncovers the process by which language is conceived of as a symbol of national identity by examining an animated newspaper controversy over the use of foreign loanwords. The book concludes that the fierce debate over the use of loanwords can be understood as a particular manifestation of the ongoing (re-)negotiation of Japanese national identity.This book will appeal to scholars and students in sociolinguistics, translation studies, and discourse analysis, while its cultural and geographic focus will attract readers in Japanese studies and East Asian studies.

近松暢子他編　中国語・日本語教授への学際的アプローチ
Chikamastu, Nobuko / Jin, Li (eds.), A Transdisciplinary Approach to Chinese and Japanese Language Teaching: Collaborative Pedagogy Across Languages, Disciplines, Communities, and Borders. 264 pp. 2023:3 (Routledge, UK) <689-744>
ISBN 978-1-032-21150-3 hard ¥37,180.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-21148-0 paper ¥10,006.- (税込) GB￡ 34.99 *

A Transdisciplinary Approach to Chinese and Japanese Language Teaching illustrates how the transdisciplinary approach to second language acquisition (SLA) centers around collaboration to provide a learning-conducive environment with rich semiotic resources for second/foreign language learners.The volume consists of 14 chapters from leading experts in SLA and Chinese and Japanese language educators from Canada, China, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. As a first work of its kind, the contributions feature both theoretical interpretations of transdisciplinary concepts that can apply to Chinese/Japanese as a second language learning and case studies showcasing how college-level Chinese and Japanese language educators design and implement pedagogical projects in collaboration with partners across languages, disciplines, communities, and borders by adopting a transdisciplinary perspective to analyze students' learning outcomes. This book will benefit researchers, administrators, educators, and teacher educators in higher education with an interest in world language education and interdisciplinary and project-based teaching.

Paichadze, Svetlana, Identity, Language and Education of Sakhalin Japanese and Koreans: Continual Diaspora. (Language Policy 31) 155 pp. 2022:10 (Springer, GW) <686-1335>
ISBN 978-3-031-13797-6 hard ¥26,374.- (税込) EUR 109.99 *

This book explores the issues of education, the use of languages and the formation of self-identification of the Japanese and Korean diasporas of Sakhalin, over a hundred years period: from the time they moved to the island, until their "return" to historical homelands in Japan or South Korea. During this time, their language environment and language of education changed 4 times and Japanese and Korean of Sakhalin continued to be a linguistic and ethnic minority.This book is of interest to researchers, students, NGO supporters and education policy makers.

Tsujimura, Natsuko, Expressing Silence: Where Language and Culture Meet in Japanese. 172 pp. 2022:3 (Lexington Books, US) <684-1968>
ISBN 978-1-4985-6924-8 hard ¥20,790.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *

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 coming from insects, small animals, ocean waves, and leaves all 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. Drawing from a wide variety of rhetorical samples, Expressing Silence brings the tools of both linguistic and cultural analysis to bear in examining the remarkably rich array of representations of silence in Japanese language and culture. She finds that depictions of silence through language cannot be understood without exploring what sound or silence mean to the speakers. She analyzes a cluster of sounds in nature and onomatopoeic vocabulary for verbal portrayals of silence, consistent with a cultural pattern of practices that value sensate and affective reactions.

Nazikian, Fumiko / Ono, Keiko / Tatsumi, Naofumi, A Practical Guide for Scholarly Reading In Japanese. (Routledge Practical Academic Reading Skills) 282 pp. 2022:12 (Routledge, UK) <683-6>
ISBN 978-1-032-01490-6 hard ¥37,180.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-01489-0 paper ¥10,006.- (税込) GB￡ 34.99 *

A Practical Guide for Scholarly Reading in Japanese is an innovative textbook for students specializing in scholarly Japanese for Asian studies. This book is aimed at scholars in any Asian Studies field in which Japanese scholarship is extremely important.The book can be used as a textbook or self-study guide for scholars of Asian studies, as well as students who need to learn to read scholarly Japanese.The book contains concise descriptions of grammar points essential for reading scholarly writings in Japanese and exercises based on excerpts taken from prominent Japanese scholarly texts. Each exercise reading provides a list of vocabulary and explanations of expressions. The reading materials provided mainly cover Chinese history, comparative literature, religion, and culture. The book can be used as a textbook or self-study guide for scholars of Asian studies, as well as students who have completed two years of basic language learning and need to learn to read scholarly Japanese.

尾鼻靖子他著　日本語の社会語用論－理論的含意
Obana, Yasuko / Haugh, Michael, Sociopragmatics of Japanese: Theoretical Implications. (Routledge Research in Pragmatics) 224 pp. 2022:12 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2024 <683-1373>
ISBN 978-0-367-52120-2 hard ¥38,610.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-52123-3 paper ¥11,436.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

Obana and Haugh question the extent to which commonly accepted theories in pragmatics can readily explain sociopragmatic phenomena in Japanese. Studies of Japanese in pragmatics have often challenged the cross-linguistic relevance of dominant theories. However, they have also inadvertently perpetuated stereotypes about the Japanese. It is often been assumed, for instance, that Japanese people are less strategic, more polite and more reliant on tacit forms of communication than speakers of other languages. But the Japanese are not as polite as one might think. The aim of this book is thus to question those folk assumptions around politeness, impoliteness, irony and indirectness while at the same time emphasizing that close examination of sociopragmatic phenomena in Japanese yields important empirical insights that combat common theoretical assumptions in pragmatics. The content is structured in three parts, in which the authors highlight a key building block of a theory of sociopragmatics. Part I focuses on indexing through the lens of chapters on honorifics, routine formula and politeness strategies. Part II focuses on evaluating through the lens of chapters on giving/receiving expressions and honorific irony. Finally, Part III focuses on relating through the lens of chapters on joint utterances and off record requests. Throughout the chapters the authors draw attention to ways in which these three dimensions are invariably intertwined in various ways.This book is not simply a collection of studies that promotes our understanding of the sociopragmatics of a particular language, but goes deeper and challenges what many have taken for granted in pragmatics. It proposes a framework for exploring sociopragmatic phenomena, building on the key sociopragmatic axes of indexing, evaluating and relating, and offers fresh new perspectives on time-honoured phenomena in pragmatics.It will interest scholars and postgraduate students in pragmatics, particularly those specializing in: politeness, impoliteness, indirectness and irony. The book explains what Japanese terms mean, and all the Japanese examples are morphologically-glossed. Therefore, teachers (and advanced learners) of Japanese at all levels will benefit from the book as it will enrich their knowledge of the Japanese language.

Kiaer, Jieun / Cagan, Ben, Pragmatics in Korean and Japanese Translation. (Routledge Studies in East Asian Translation) 184 pp. 2022:9 (Routledge, UK) <678-1761>
ISBN 978-1-032-10868-1 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-10867-4 paper ¥11,150.- (税込) GB￡ 38.99 *

This book explores how the greater amount of pragmatic information encoded in Korean and Japanese can result in pragmatic (in)visibility when translating between those languages and English. Pragmatic information must be added when translating from English to Korean or Japanese and is easily lost when translating in the other direction.This book offers an analysis of translations in Japanese and Korean of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and The Hobbit, or There and Back Again to show how the translated versions crystallise the translators' interpretations of relationships in the way characters address one another. This book discusses fan translations of Korean and Japanese to English of various popular media, observing that the emotional meanings easily lost when translating in this direction are often deemed important enough to warrant the insertion of additional explanatory material. The book additionally discusses the role of fan translation in the construction of international online communities and a heightened communal commentary on translation. Western translation commentary has historically lacked sufficient emphasis on translation to and from East Asian languages, and these case studies help to address a problem of central importance to translation to and from languages that encode interpersonal dynamics in dramatically different ways to English.This book will be of interest to students and researchers in translation studies, particularly in Korean and Japanese translation. The book will also appeal to students and researchers of the Korean and Japanese languages.

日本語における食の言語
Toratani, Kiyoko (ed.), The Language of Food in Japanese: Cognitive Perspectives and Beyond. (Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research 25) 347 pp. 2022:2 (J. Benjamins, NE) <674-2009>
ISBN 978-90-272-1082-1 hard ¥23,740.- (税込) EUR 99.00 *

Many studies on the language of food examine English or adopt discourse analysis. This volume makes a fresh attempt to analyze Japanese, focusing on non-discursive units. It offers state-of-the-art data-oriented studies, including methods of analysis in line with Cognitive Linguistics. It orchestrates relatable and intriguing topics, from sound-symbolism in rice cracker naming to meanings of aesthetic sake taste terms. The chapters show that the language of food in Japanese is multifaceted: for instance, expressivity is enhanced by ideophones, as sensory words iconically depicting perceptual experiences and as nuanced words flexibly participating in neologization; context-sensitivity is exemplified by words deeply imbued with socio-cultural constructs; creativity is portrayed by imaginative expressions grounded in embodied experience. The volume will be a valuable resource for students and researchers, not only in linguistics but also in neighboring disciplines, who seek deeper insights into how language interacts with food in Japanese or any other language.

Yonezawa, Yoko, The Mysterious Address Term anata 'you' in Japanese. (Topics in Address Research 4) 208 pp. 2021:10 (J. Benjamins, NE) <667-2845>
ISBN 978-90-272-1050-0 hard ¥22,781.- (税込) EUR 95.00

The use of the second person singular pronoun anata 'you' in modern Japanese has long been regarded as mysterious and problematic, generating contradictory nuances such as polite, impolite, intimate, and distancing. Treated as a troublesome pronoun, scholars have searched for a semantically loaded meaning in anata, under the assumption that all Japanese personal reference terms involve social indexicality. This book takes a new approach, revealing that anata is in fact semantically simple and its powerful expressivity is explained only in pragmatic terms. In doing so, the study brings to bear a thorough understanding of key issues in pragmatics, such as common ground, sociocultural norms, and shared understandings, in order to fully grasp the meaning and usage of this single linguistic item. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in a range of linguistic fields, such as semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, anthropological linguistics, linguistic typology, cultural linguistics, as well as applied linguistics.

Maynard, Senko, Exploring the Self, Subjectivity, and Character across Japanese and Translation Texts. (Studies in Pragmatics 20) 290 pp. 2022:3 (Brill, NE) <666-3824>
ISBN 978-90-04-50585-8 hard ¥28,536.- (税込) EUR 119.00 *

From the perspective of philosophical contrastive pragmatics, this study investigates our multiple selves as manifested in how we use language. Based on analyses of original and translation texts of Japanese and English literary works, the Japanese self is proposed as being fundamentally empty and yet richly populated with multiple subjective aspects, characters, and characteristics. Incorporating the concept of emptiness drawn from Japanese philosophical traditions and postmodernism primarily developed in the West, selves evidenced in grammar, style, and variation are investigated applying interpretive resources of linguistic subjectivity, character, and character-speak. Expressive gaps found in source and target texts across two languages lead us toward different ontological views, and guide us to engage in the rethinking of the concept of self.

Schreiber, Gordian, Japanese Morphography: Deconstructing hentai kanbun. (Language, Writing and Literary Culture in the Sinographic Cosmopolis 4) 225 pp. 2022:1 (Brill, NE) <666-3825>
ISBN 978-90-04-50389-2 hard EUR 0.00

How is it possible to write down the Japanese language exclusively in Chinese characters? And how are we then able to determine the language behind the veil of the Chinese script as Japanese? The history of writing in Japan presents us with a fascinating variety of writing styles ranging from phonography to morphography and all shades in between. In Japanese Morphography: Deconstructing hentai kanbun, Gordian Schreiber shows that texts traditionally labelled as "hentai kanbun" or "variant Chinese" are, in fact, morphographically written Japanese texts instead and not just the result of an underdeveloped skill in Chinese. The study fosters our understanding of writing system typology beyond phonographic writing.

A.ヴォヴィン他著　東部の古代日本語のコーパスと辞書
Vovin, Alexander / Ishisaki-Vovin, Sambi, The Eastern Old Japanese Corpus and Dictionary. (Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 5: Japan 17) 2021:11 (Brill, NE) <666-3761>
ISBN 978-90-04-47119-1 hard ¥31,174.- (税込) EUR 130.00

This book presents for the first time all texts constituting the Eastern Old Japanese corpus as well as the dictionary including all lexical items found. Unlike its relative Western Old Japanese, Eastern Old Japanese is not based on the language of just two geographic localities, but is stretched along several provinces of Ancient Japan along the Pacific Seaboard (modern Aichi to Ibaraki) and across the island of Honshu from Etchu (Modern Toyama and parts of Ishikawa) province to Shinano and Kai provinces (modern Nagano and Yamanashi). Therefore, references to places of attestation are included into our dictionary, too.

Kadooka, Ken-Ichi (ed.), Japanese Mood and Modality in Systemic Functional Linguistics: Theory and Application. 179 pp. 2021:3 (J. Benjamins, NE) <665-2505>
ISBN 978-90-272-0834-7 hard ¥23,740.- (税込) EUR 99.00

This book is a cross-linguistic and interdisciplinary exploration of modality within systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Drawing upon the broad SFL notion of modality that refers to the intermediate degrees between the positive and negative poles, the individual papers probe into the modality systems in English and Japanese. The papers cover issues such as the conceptual nature of modality in both languages, the characterization of modulation in Japanese, the trans-grammatical aspects of modality in relation to mood and grammatical metaphor in both languages, and the modality uses and pragmatic impairment by individuals with a developmental disorder from a neurocognitive perspective.The book demonstrates a functional account of Japanese within an SFL model of language with a fresh perspective to Japanese linguistics. It also refers to cross-linguistic issues concerning how the principles and theories of SFL serve to empirically elaborate descriptions of individual languages, which will lead to the enrichment of the theory and practice of linguistics and beyond.

Maher, John C., Metroethnicity, Naming and Mocknolect: New Horizons in Japanese Sociolinguistics. (IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 49) 239 pp. 2021:5 (J. Benjamins, NE) <665-2427>
ISBN 978-90-272-0857-6 hard ¥23,740.- (税込) EUR 99.00

Language is a social space, an aesthetic, a form of play and communication, a geographical reference, a jouissance, a producer of numerous social and personal identities. This book takes up salient issues of sociolinguistics with a specific focus on Japan: language and gender (the married name controversy), language and the 'portable' identities being fashioned around traditional, essentialist notions of ethnicity (metroethnicity) endangerment, slang, taboo and discriminatory language in Japanese especially regarding minorities, place-names from indigenous languages, the fellowship and parody of children's songs, and the diversity of nicknames among children and young people. This books gives radical and new perspectives on the sociolinguistics of Japanese.

Watanabe, Kazuha, Diachrony, Synchrony, and Typology of Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese. 210 pp. 2021:3 (Lexington Books, US) <664-4775>
ISBN 978-1-7936-1442-1 hard ¥21,829.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

Diachrony, Synchrony, and Typology of Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese reconstructs the synchronic system of tense and aspect in Old Japanese, which until now has not been examined using the tools of contemporary linguistic theory. Kazuha Watanabe analyzes syntactic distribution of the temporal suffixes in the Man'yoshu, an eighth-century poetry collection, and compares the results with data from well-attested languages. The author then integrates the semantic property of each suffix into the overall synchronic tense-aspect system of Old Japanese. Watanabe further compares the reconstructed system with the distributions of the same suffixes in Early Modern Japanese using Genji Monogatari, an eleventh-century novel, in order to provide further support for the synchronic analysis of Old Japanese. This approach is fundamentally different from traditional analyses, which identify the meanings of the temporal suffixes based on contextual information. In addition, previous analyses have produced a uniform analysis covering the entire 700-year period from Old to Early Modern Japanese. Instead, Watanabe proposes that Old Japanese had a temporal system distinct from the later period.

Csizer, Kata, Second Language Learning Motivation in a European Context: The Case of Hungary. (Second Language Learning and Teaching) 158 pp. 2021:1 (Springer, GW) <662-P7785>
ISBN 978-3-030-64461-1 hard ¥31,170.- (税込) EUR 129.99 *

This book provides an overview of second language (L2) motivation research in a specific European context: Hungary, which has proved to offer an important laboratory for such research, as a number of major political changes over the past 30 years have created a changing background for L2 learning in an increasingly globalized world. The book provides an overview of theoretical research on L2 motivation, together with detailed information on large-scale L2 motivation studies in Hungary. Further, it presents a meta-analysis of the most important investigations, and qualitative data on teachers' views regarding success in L2 learning. In turn, the interdisciplinary nature of L2 motivation is taken into account and relevant antecedent constructs to L2 motivation are investigated. Lastly, the book outlines possible future directions for L2 motivation research.

佐藤響子他編　日本語における周辺化の言語学的戦術・戦略
Kroo, Judit / Satoh, Kyoko (eds.), Linguistic Tactics and Strategies of Marginalization in Japanese. 238 pp. 2021:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <662-P7786>
ISBN 978-3-030-67824-1 hard ¥35,966.- (税込) EUR 149.99 *

This edited book brings together studies on different aspects of marginalization in Japanese, creating a framework for studying marginalization which can also be applied in other linguistic and international contexts. The chapters in this book look at both marginalization of others and self-marginalization, examining the pragmatic strategies used to achieve marginalization, and investigating situations where it acts as an agentive tactic of speakers, in addition to a strategy of broader social structures. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, pragmatics, linguistic anthropology, and East Asian languages and cultures.

Budzinska, Katarzyna / Majchrzak, Olga (eds.), Positive Psychology in Second and Foreign Language Education. (Second Language Learning and Teaching) X, 240 pp. 2021:4 (Springer, GW) <662-P6402>
ISBN 978-3-030-64443-7 hard ¥35,966.- (税込) EUR 149.99 *

This book demonstrates how resources taken from positive psychology can benefit both teachers and learners. Positive psychology is the empirical study of how people thrive and flourish. This book explores a range of topics, such as affectivity and positive emotions, engagement, enjoyment, empathy, positive institutions, a positive L2 self-system, as well as newly added Positive Language Education. Some papers in this collection introduce new topics such as the role of positive psychology in international higher education, a framework for understanding language teacher well-being from an ecological perspective, or positive institutional policies in language education contexts.

當作靖彦他編　日本語教授へのソーシャル・ネットワーキングのアプローチ
Tohsaku, Yasu-Hiko / Nazikian, Fumiko / Park, Jisuk (eds.), Social Networking Approach to Japanese Language Teaching: The Intersection of Language and Culture in the Digital Age. 240 pp. 2021:3 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <660-P7572>
ISBN 978-0-367-43073-3 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-70514-5 paper ¥11,436.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

Social Networking Approach to Japanese Language Teaching is a timely guide for Japanese language teachers and anyone interested in language pedagogy. The book outlines an innovative approach to language instruction which goes beyond the communicative approach and encourages a global view of language education and curriculum development through the use of social networking. It showcases diverse examples of how social networking can be harnessed and incorporated into everyday language classes to increase learners' curiosity and engagement in real cultural and global interactions. While the focus is on Japanese language teaching, the concepts explored can be applied to other languages and teaching contexts.This book will benefit teachers of any language as well as linguists interested in language pedagogy.

影山太郎、P.パルデシ他編　アジアの諸言語における動詞-動詞複合語
Kageyama, Taro / Hook, Peter E. / Pardeshi, Prashant (eds.), Verb-Verb Complexes in Asian Languages. 576 pp. 2021:2 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <659-P9200>
ISBN 978-0-19-875950-8 hard ¥31,460.- (税込) GB￡ 110.00 *

This volume is the first to present a detailed survey of the systems of verb-verb complexes in Asian languages from both a synchronic and diachronic perspective. Many Asian languages share, to a greater or lesser extent, a unique class of compound verbs consisting of a main verb and a quasi-auxiliary verb known as a 'vector' or 'explicator'. These quasi-auxiliary verbs exhibit unique grammatical behaviour that suggests that they have an intermediate status between full lexical verbs and wholly reduced auxiliaries. They are also semantically unique, in that when they are combined with main verbs, they can convey a rich variety of functional meanings beyond the traditional notions of tense, aspect, and modality, such as manner and intensity of action, benefaction for speaker or hearer, and polite or derogatory styles in speech. In this book, leading specialists in a range of Asian languages offer an in-depth analysis of the long-standing questions relating to the diachrony and geographical distribution of verb-verb complexes. The findings have implications for the general understanding of the grammaticalization of verb categories, complex predicate formation, aktionsart and event semantics, the morphology-syntax-semantics interface, areal linguistics, and typology.