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Japan: Fictions and Reality
edited by Aleksandra Jarosz and Aleksandra Jaworowicz-Zimny in collaboration with Karli Shimizu “Japan is a country with no minorities.” “Japanese society is the most homogenous in the world.” “Japan is the most religiously tolerant country in the world.” “The Japanese are always subservient and polite.” “The Japanese have no sense of humor.” Are these fiction or reality? We cannot guarantee you any firm answers. We can, however, assure you that each of the 28 chapters of this volume should bring you closer to an understanding of the reality of Japan at the turn of Reiwa. „W Japonii nie ma mniejszości.” „Japonia ma najbardziej jednolite społeczeństwo na świecie.” „Japonia to kraj o największej na świecie tolerancji religijnej.” „Japończycy są zawsze usłużni i grzeczni.” „Japończycy nie mają poczucia humoru.” Fikcja czy rzeczywistość? Choć nie możemy zaproponować Czytelnikom oczywistych odpowiedzi, zapewniamy, że każdy z 28 rozdziałów niniejszego zbioru przybliży Ich do zrozumienia rzeczywistości Japonii u progu ery Reiwa. Tom V z serii Japonica Toruniensis
Historical Linguistics and Philology of Central Asia
This is a collection of papers in Turkic and Mongolic Studies, with a focus on the literacy, culture, and languages of the steppe civilizations.
Language Endangerment and Obsolescence in East Asia
What shapes and magnitude can language loss have in East Asian endangered languages? How does it differ with regards to the languages' historical development and sociolinguistic environment? This book surveys a number of minority and, in most cases, endangered languages spoken in China, Japan, Taiwan, and Russia which all face, or have faced in their recent history, loss of language features. The contributions in this publication present you with different cases of obsolescence attested throughout East Asia and highlight how this process, though often leading back to common causes, is in fact a multifaceted reality with diverse repercussions on grammar and linguistic vitality.
An Introduction to the Japonic Languages
Japanese is definitely one of the best-known languages in typological literature. For example, typologists often assume that Japanese is a nominative-accusative language. However, it is often overlooked that Japanese, or more precisely, Tokyo Japanese, is just one of various local varieties of the Japonic language family (Japanese and Ryukyuan). In fact, the Japonic languages exhibit a surprising typological diversity. For example, some varieties display a split-intransitive as opposed to nominative-accusative system. The present volume is thus a unique attempt to explore the typological diversity of Japonic by providing a collection of grammatical sketches of various local varieties, four from Japanese dialects and five from Ryukyuan. Each grammatical sketch follows the same descriptive format, addressing a wide range of typological topics.
The Footprints of the Buddha
This book deals with Chinese and Japanese inscriptions (8th century AD) about the footprints of Buddha. The language of the Japanese inscription reflects the contemporary dialect of Nara. Its writing system presents a special interest being practically monophonic.
Descriptive Grammar and Diachrony of Kurima
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.
Borders and Beyond: Orient-Occident Crossings in Literature
The work presents articles discussing various subjects relating to literary, cultural borders and borderlands as well as their crossings with the Orient and the Occident. A broad, multifaceted scope of the volume draws the attention of readers to the problem of liminal spaces between cultures, genres, codes and languages of literary and artistic communication. The perspective of borderness proposed by orientalists, literary specialists, culture experts provide insights into multi-dimensional and heterogenic subjects and methods of consideration. The authors referring to, inter alia, comparative studies, theory of reception, intertextuality, transculturality of the East and West works touch u...
Studies in Asian Historical Linguistics, Philology and Beyond
This volume is a tribute to Professor Vovin’s research and a summary of the latest developments in his fields of expertise.
Endangered Languages of Northeast Asia
An exciting and up-to date book on endangered languages of Northeast Asia both from the emic and etic perspective.
Man’yōshū (Book 2)
Book two of the Man’yōshū (‘Anthology of Myriad Leaves’) continues Alexander Vovin’s new English translation of this 20-volume work originally compiled between c.759 and 785 AD. It is the earliest Japanese poetic anthology in existence and thus the most important compendium of Japanese culture of the Asuka and Nara periods. Book two is the ninth volume of the Man’yōshū to be published to date (following books fifteen (2009), five (2011), fourteen (2012), twenty (2013), seventeen (2016), eighteen (2016), one (2017), and nineteen (2018). Each volume of the Vovin translation contains the original text, kana transliteration, romanization, glossing and commentary.
