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The emotional aspects of language have so far not received the attention they deserve. This study focuses on nonpropositional, i.e. expressive and interactional meanings of Japanese signs, with special emphasis on understanding their cognitive, psychological and social meanings. It shows how the Japanese language is richly endowed to express personal voice and emotive nuances, and confronts the theoretical issues related to this. The author proposes a new theoretical framework for Discourse Modality, a primary concern for Japanese speakers, to analyze the 'expressiveness' of language.

Japanese language --- Grammar --- Pragmatics --- -Japanese language --- -Koguryo language --- Discourse analysis --- Modality --- -Discourse analysis --- Koguryo language --- Discourse analysis. --- Modality. --- Japonais (langue) --- Discours

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Using theoretical concepts of self, perspective, and voice as an interpretive guide, and based on the Place of Negotiation theory, this volume explores the phenomenon of linguistic creativity in Japanese discourse, i.e., the use of language in specific ways for foregrounding personalized expressive meanings. Personalized expressive meanings include psychological, emotive, interpersonal, and rhetorical aspects of communication, encompassing broad meanings such as feelings of intimacy or distance, emotion, empathy, humor, playfulness, persona, sense of self, identity, rhetorical effects, and so on. Nine analysis chapters explore the meanings, functions, and effects observable in the indices of linguistic creativity, focusing on discourse creativity (style mixture, borrowing others' styles, genre mixture), rhetorical creativity (puns, metaphors, metaphors in multimodal discourse), and grammatical creativity (negatives, demonstratives, first-person references). Based on the analysis of verbal and visual data drawn from multiple genres of contemporary cultural discourse, this work reveals that by creatively expressing in language we share our worlds from multiple perspectives, we speak in self's and others' many voices, and we endlessly create personalized expressive meanings as testimony to our own sense of being.

Creativity (Linguistics) --- Discourse analysis. --- Language and languages --- Japanese language --- Linguostylistics --- Stylistics --- Literary style --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Creative ability (Linguistics) --- Linguistic creativity --- Competence and performance (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Psycholinguistics --- Style.

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Japanese language --- Conversation analysis --- Oral communication --- Popular culture --- Sociolinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Oral transmission --- Speech communication --- Verbal communication --- Communication --- Analysis of conversation --- CA (Interpersonal communication) --- Conversational analysis --- Discourse analysis. --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- J5280 --- J5009 --- J4143 --- Japan: Language -- grammar -- semantics and rhetoric --- Japan: Language -- theory, methodology and philosophy --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- cultural trends and movements -- popular culture --- Sociology of culture --- Mass communications --- Pragmatics

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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.

Creativity (Linguistics) --- Discourse analysis --- Japanese language --- Japanese Linguistics --- Language and languages --- Style --- Self (Philosophy) in literature. --- Discourse analysis. --- Japanese Linguistics. --- Style.

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