SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL PERSPECTIVES OF JAPANESE by Elizabeth Thomson (Editor), William Armour (Editor) ( 9781845530532 )

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SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL PERSPECTIVES OF JAPANESE
DESCRIPTIONS AND APPLICATIONS

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Elizabeth Thomson (Editor), William Armour (Editor)

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EQUINOX PUBLISHING LTD

Pub. date:

1 December, 2009

Series:

Functional Linguistics

Pages:

372

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Intended for those working in the field of Japanese linguistics and language teaching but also to those working in comparative fields. Apart from the introductory survey chapter, the other 13 chapters in this volume are original treatments of Japanese from a systemic functional (SF) perspective from scholars in Australia and Japan.

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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 is divided into two sections: descriptions and applications. The descriptions section is organised into the three metafunctions: textual, interpersonal and ideational. The applications section explores education and computing. The contributions on education present work on the application of systemic functional theory to teaching Japanese as a second or foreign language. The contributions on computing present the application of systemic functional theory to the development of a Japanese language based computer operating system. Systemic Functional Perspectives of Japanese is suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers of descriptive linguistics and applied linguistics and also for Japanese language teachers. It includes a foreword by Professor Noboru Yamaguchi, Tohoku University, one of the first linguists to explore systemic functional perspectives of Japanese.

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