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Database and Expert Systems Applications

Autor: Abdelkader Hameurlain , Stephen W. Liddle , Klaus-dieter Schewe , Xiaofang Zhou

Número de Páginas: 586

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22 International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2011, held in Toulouse, France, August 29 - September 2, 2011. The 52 revised full papers and 40 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 207 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on query processing; database semantics; skyline queries; security and privacy; spatial and temporal data; semantic web search; storage and search; web search; data integration, transactions and optimization; and web applications.

Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management

Autor: Patrick Lambrix , Eero Hyvönen , Eva Blomqvist , Valentina Presutti , Guilin Qi , Uli Sattler , Ying Ding , Chiara Ghidini

Número de Páginas: 239

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of Satellite Events held at the 19th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2014 in November 2014. EKAW 2014 hosted three satellite workshops: VISUAL 2014, International Workshop on Visualizations and User Interfaces for Knowledge Engineering and Linked Data Analytics, EKM1, the First International Workshop on Educational Knowledge Management and ARCOE-Logic 2014, the 6th International Workshop on Acquisition, Representation and Reasoning about Context with Logic. This volume also contains the accepted contributions for the EKAW 2014 tutorials, demo and poster sessions.

Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management

Autor: Krzysztof Janowicz , Stefan Schlobach , Patrick Lambrix , Eero Hyvönen

Número de Páginas: 641

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2014, held in Linköping, Sweden, in November 2014. The 24 full papers and 21 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 138 submissions. The papers cover all aspects of eliciting, acquiring, modeling, and managing knowledge, the construction of knowledge-intensive systems and services for the Semantic Web, knowledge management, e-business, natural language processing, intelligent information integration, personal digital assistance systems, and a variety of other related topics.

Kenya Gazette

Número de Páginas: 410

The Kenya Gazette is an official publication of the government of the Republic of Kenya. It contains notices of new legislation, notices required to be published by law or policy as well as other announcements that are published for general public information. It is published every week, usually on Friday, with occasional releases of special or supplementary editions within the week.

Japanese for Beginners

Autor: Sachiko Toyozato

Número de Páginas: 320

Japanese for Beginners is a straightforward learning guide which enables beginners to pick up a functional knowledge of spoken Japanese very quickly and easily. This complete Japanese language package has helped many thousands of people learn to speak colloquial Japanese. It is designed for busy people who wish to pick up a working knowledge of Japanese on their own in just a few days, rather than a few years. Japanese for Beginners makes this possible by providing a firm grounding in grammar and sentence structure using dialogues and vocabulary that reflect authentic Japanese situations and manga comic strips to emphasize contemporary culture and humor. Key features of Japanese for Beginners: Practical Japanese phrases help you converse with ease. Comic strips (Japanese manga) and dialogues bring Japanese to life. Exercises help you to practice speaking and listening. Drills and exercises are included in each chapter to help you practice the sentence patterns and vocabulary. About this new edition: Japanese for Beginners is now expanded to include IT, Social Media, mobile phone conversations and texting!

Applied Language Learning

Número de Páginas: 220

En el jardín de lirios. El amor entre mujeres en la cultura pop asiática

Autor: Alexandra Arana Blas , María Alexandra Arana Blas

Número de Páginas: 124

Desde la apertura de Japón en 1858, y con la llegada de un pensamiento occidental que influyó en el sistema médico, familiar, político y educativo japonés, vemos una mayor participación de la mujer en la esfera pública, en especial en espacios como la escuela, el arte y la literatura. De estos, la educación es una de las más importantes, pues permitió a las jóvenes aplazar el matrimonio y, a través de los dormitorios femeninos y las revistas para chicas (shōjo zasshi), encontraron un lugar donde expresarse con libertad y descubrir su sexualidad. Esto, sumado a los procesos de industrialización y dinamización de la economía, permitió a inicios del siglo XX el surgimiento de una cultura de chicas (shōjo bunka), donde nace la literatura de Clase S, un género melodramático que presenta los matices que tienen las amistades femeninas: desde la nostalgia y la admiración, hasta el amor platónico y la atracción sexual. De dicha tradición nace el manga shōjo, el cual se escinde en el siglo XXI y crea el manga yuri. Muchos fueron los países que se vieron influenciados por esta presentación del lesbianismo y la atracción entre mujeres, entre ellos China, Corea e...

Open Your Eyes

Autor: Paul Jessup

Número de Páginas: 149

Her lover was a supernova who took worlds with him when he died, and as a new world grows within Ekhi, savage lives rage and love on a small ship in the outer reaches of space. A ship with an agenda of its own. Critically acclaimed author of weird fiction Paul Jessup sends puppets to speak and fight for their masters while a linguistic virus eats through the minds of a group of scavengers in Open Your Eyes, a surrealist space opera of haunting beauty and infinite darkness.

Gesturecraft

Autor: Jürgen Streeck

Número de Páginas: 249

The craft of gesture is part of the practical equipment with which we inhabit and understand the world together. Drawing on micro-ethnographic research in diverse interaction settings, this book explores the communicative ecologies in which hand-gestures appear: illuminating the world around us, depicting it, making sense of it, and symbolizing the interaction process itself. Gesture is analyzed as embodied communicative action grounded in the hands' practical and cognitive engagments with material worlds. The book responds to the quest for the role of the human body in cognition and interaction with an analytic perspective informed by phenomenology, conversation analysis, context analysis, praxeology, and cognitive science. Many of the cross-linguistic video-data of everyday interaction investigated in its chapters are available on-line.

A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese

Autor: Yukio Tono , Makoto Yamazaki , Kikuo Maekawa

Número de Páginas: 380

A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese is an invaluable tool for all learners of Japanese, providing a list of the 5,000 most commonly used words in the language. Based on a100 million word corpus, composed of spoken, fiction, non-fiction and news texts in current use, the dictionary provides the user with a detailed frequency-based list, as well as alphabetical and part-of-speech indices. All entries in the frequency list feature the English equivalent and a sample sentence with English translation. The dictionary also contains 25 thematically organised lists of frequently used words on a variety of topics such as food, weather, occupations and leisure. Numerous bar charts are also included to highlight the phonetic and spelling variants across register. A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese enables students of all levels to maximise their study of Japanese vocabulary in an efficient and engaging way. It is also an excellent resource for teachers of the language. Former CD content is now available to access at www.routledge.com/9780415610131 as support material. Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists it provides the full text in a format that researchers can process and...

The Medusa File

Autor: James R. Stevenson

Número de Páginas: 227

When Harvey Ashton finds a secret file hidden by his father, he begins to wonder if his parents death was really an accident. The file has three names on it, two of which Harvey has never heard of, but the third name he knows very well. The search for the truth behind the tragic death of his parents takes him on an adventure to Japan, where he meets a helpful stranger. He needs to decide if he can trust this man. Doing so puts his life in danger, but it could also help him discover the truth about his parents.

Retorno a Nun

Autor: Ángel Balos

Número de Páginas: 335

¿Qué sería de nosotros si el contenido de la máquina fuera revelado? ¿Qué se esconde en el bosque? ¿Qué sucedería si aquel cohete despegara?\r Un indigente, un guerrero, una mujer confinada..., nosotros. Los protagonistas de estos nueve relatos de género fantástico, independientes pero de indudable sabor unitario, se verán sacudidos por arrolladoras fuerzas: el deseo, el miedo, el tiempo..., el poder. Pero cuando por entre las líneas de Memorias (relato que pone término a la serie, donde pasado y presente, realidad y ficción se mezclan —mejor, se confunden— ineludiblemente) empieza a asomar quien había permanecido oculto todo este tiempo, una última fuerza será liberada.

Recordando El Más Allá

Autor: C.m. Calero

Número de Páginas: 176

La presente obra trata, esencialmente, de la enorme cantidad de vivencias experimentadas por un servidor durante el periodo de tiempo que va, desde mediados de noviembre de dos mil cinco, a principios de enero de dos mil seis, cincuenta días, o lo que es lo mismo, mil doscientas horas plagadas de sufrimiento, dolor, situaciones inverosímiles, afán de superación y esperanza. Jamás hubiera imaginado ni en el más delirante de mis pensamientos que sería testigo de algo como lo presenciado durante los cinco días que estuve en estado de coma. Vaya por delante que esto no trata sobre religión, sino sobre cómo una persona totalmente sana, deportista, que ni bebía, ni fumaba nada en absoluto, terminó desahuciada por la ciencia, debido al deplorable estado de salud en el que me hallaba, luego de pasar cuatro semanas empeorando día a día causado por un erróneo diagnóstico de mi doctora, donde las posibilidades de sobrevivir a una intervención quirúrgica de urgencia a la que fui sometido, eran de apenas un cinco por ciento. Si es usted una persona a la que le interesan los viajes astrales, sueños lúcidos, parálisis del sueño, universos paralelos, incluso pesadillas...

Perturbar la piel

Autor: Porcayo, Gerardo Horacio

Número de Páginas: 265

Sobrevivir en un búnker mientras el mundo crepita su fi n al son de una irregular lluvia de pedazos de asteroide que aún orbitan la Tierra, junto con los efectos colaterales de las explosiones atómicas necesarias para fragmentarlo, puede ser aburrido para casi todos en el colectivo Saer, excepto para Mawr, a quien su cuerpo prestado, mutilado, finalmente falla. Su nueva piel no es la cosa menos extravagante en ese planeta agonizante, inundado y con gran parte de la población mundial extinguida, sino que ahora esa extravagancia se acentúa en su genitalidad, en su nombre legal; por eso elige el diminutivo Lexy, acaso como única estrategia de defensa. En esta novela —segunda parte de Volver a la piel (colección Popular 749)— las injusticias, el hartazgo, las luchas internas y el deseo por conocerse son los detonantes para este recorrido de una orografía cada vez más compleja y que a más de un lector logrará perturbarle la piel.

Cuentos Cortos De Sitios Lejanos

Autor: Kevin O'flaherty

Número de Páginas: 348

Una colección de cuatro relatos que tratan de personas en el cruse de caminos entre la lucha humana y la autodeterminación. Las decisiones que tomen los llevarán a su destino. El Jardín de la República: Un neoyorquino compulsivo, está aburrido con su vida, se apunta a una ONG en Tucumán, Argentina, para construir un centro de salud. Mientras ahí, conoce a unas personas que toman un papel importante en sus decisiones y a la vez se entera de la Guerra Sucia que pasó en Argentina en los años 80. Zabalburu Urkia: Un Ireland's con leves discapacidades ve cómo su vida pasa y toma una decisión de impartir clases de ingles en el País Vasco en España. Una vez ahí, sus discapacidades le hacen la vida difícil mientras busca el tesoro perdido del monte Anboto. Las Campanas de Gloucester: Dos jóvenes de Gloucester, Inglaterra, mejores amigos desde la niñez pierden la amistad mientras sus vidas los lleva por distintos caminos. Sus nuevos compañeros les hacen tomar decisiones difíciles. Es un relato de la madurez y a redención. El Celtic Verde: Un relato alegórico sobre la única constante en la vida es el cambio. Las personajes con metáforas del ciclo de vida-el...

日本語NOW! NihonGO NOW!

Autor: Mari Noda , Patricia J. Wetzel , Ginger Marcus , Stephen D. Luft , Shinsuke Tsuchiya , Masayuki Itomitsu

Número de Páginas: 435

NihonGO NOW! is a beginning-level courseware package that takes a performed-culture approach to learning Japanese. This innovative approach balances the need for an intellectual understanding of structural elements with multiple opportunities to experience the language within its cultural context. From the outset, learners are presented with samples of authentic language that are context-sensitive and culturally coherent. Instructional time is used primarily to rehearse interactions that learners of Japanese are likely to encounter in the future, whether they involve speaking, listening, writing, or reading. Level 1 comprises two textbooks with accompanying activity books. These four books in combination with audio files allow instructors to adapt a beginning-level course, such as the first year of college Japanese, to their students’ needs. They focus on language and modeled behavior, providing opportunities for learners to acquire language through performance templates. Online resources provide additional support for both students and instructors. Audio files, videos, supplementary exercises, and a teachers’ manual are available at www.routledge.com/9781138304147. NihonGO...

Bicycling

Número de Páginas: 176

Bicycling magazine features bikes, bike gear, equipment reviews, training plans, bike maintenance how tos, and more, for cyclists of all levels.

Les études françaises au Japon

Autor: Collectif

Número de Páginas: 153

Cet ouvrage, qui rassemble les contributions d’une douzaine de spécialistes japonais et français, donne un aperçu des études menées au Japon dans les domaines de la littérature et de la langue françaises. Les travaux concernent aussi bien le Moyen Âge, les 17e et 19e siècles, que la littérature et la langue contemporaine. Ce recueil intéressera tous ceux qui sont désireux de s'informer sur la place qu'occupent la culture et la langue française au Japon.

Quelque chose que je rends à la terre

Autor: Sébastien Ménard

Número de Páginas: 117

« Ces pages sont aux errants — aux cailloux — aux poussières et à l’humus. Elles sont à la pourriture ligneuse, aux lichens, lichens — aux rongeurs. Ces pages sont aux noms des bois — à ceux des forêts tout autant qu’aux innommés. Ces pages sont aux bruyères — aux fougères — aux tourbes et aux lombrics. Elles sont aux terriers. Elles sont à l’irrégularité. À l’imprévu. Au perpétuel. À l’enfoui — au très très enfoui. » Et je m’obstine, m’acharne, ahane — continue. Voici un rassemblement. C’est trempé, truffé, couturé, de recopillages — travail à façon de reconnaître quelques dettes et les « grands alliés substantiels ». J’ai cherché les traces, les poussières, les surgissements et les refuges. Mais la poésie hein. Elle sait, elle. C’était du gros de matière laissée à lentement macérer, parfois brassée — à manière de fabrication de terre — quoi fut ensuite distillé à l’issue de plus d’une année d’attente — et donc, cher lecteur, courage, vivons, répétons, portons nos amis dans la nuit, dans la brume. Sébastien Ménard

Logo Design Love

Autor: David Airey

Número de Páginas: 218

There are a lot of books out there that show collections of logos. But David Airey’s “Logo Design Love” is something different: it’s a guide for designers (and clients) who want to understand what this mysterious business is all about. Written in reader-friendly, concise language, with a minimum of designer jargon, Airey gives a surprisingly clear explanation of the process, using a wide assortment of real-life examples to support his points. Anyone involved in creating visual identities, or wanting to learn how to go about it, will find this book invaluable. - Tom Geismar, Chermayeff & Geismar In Logo Design Love, Irish graphic designer David Airey brings the best parts of his wildly popular blog of the same name to the printed page. Just as in the blog, David fills each page of this simple, modern-looking book with gorgeous logos and real world anecdotes that illustrate best practices for designing brand identity systems that last. David not only shares his experiences working with clients, including sketches and final results of his successful designs, but uses the work of many well-known designers to explain why well-crafted brand identity systems are important, how to ...

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2023)

Autor: Nuria Haristiani , Yulianeta Yulianeta , Yanty Wirza , Wawan Gunawan , Ari Arifin Danuwijaya , Eri Kurniawan , Suharno Suharno , Nia Nafisah , Ernie Diyahkusumaning Ayu Imperiani

Número de Páginas: 578

This is an open access book.ICOLLITE is an annual international conference organized by the Faculty of Language and Literature Education of Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia in the fields of Language, Literature, Culture, and Education. This conference embraces interdisciplinary studies representing advances and fresh studies in the fields of language, literature, culture and education. The aim is to bring together leading scientists, researchers and academic practitioners to exchange experiences and research results on all aspects of language, literature, culture and education. This year, 'Globalization and Its Impacts on Language, Literature, and Culture: Opportunities and Challenges' becomes its theme. Presenters and participants are welcomed to discuss and disseminate current issues and offer solutions to the challenges of our time.

Kansai Japanese

Autor: Peter Tse

Número de Páginas: 153

Finally, a systematic approach to learning the language of Kansai's boardrooms, shops, bars, a and boudoirs."—Kansai time Out Kansai Japanese contains everything you need to know about Kansai-ben, the most important dialect of the Japanese language. Spoken in the Kansai region, which includes the well-known cities of Kyoto, Osaka, and Kobe, Kansai-ben has long been considered a cryptic dialect even by Japanese. Thus it is no wonder that foreigners who speak only standard Japanese are baffled when they find themselves surrounded by the 21 million Japanese speaking the Kansai dialect. Kansai-ben is said to be earthier and more direct than standard Japanese, but it has its own system of polite language that is not taught in books or schools. In fact, Kansai-ben is rarely taught anywhere, and until now there has been no English text that explains the workings of this colorful dialect. Entertaining and very practical, Kansai Japanese has hundreds of sample sentences and dialogues with both English and standard-Japanese equivalents, covering topics like: Traditional Kyoto dialectMale and female speechLovers' languageKansai honorifics land insultsTV and movie samurai languageAnd much...

Insatiable

Autor: Jason Fagone

Número de Páginas: 381

Bill 'EL Wingador' Simmons, Sonya 'The Black Widow' Thomas, David 'Coondog' O'Karma, Bill 'EL Wingador' Simmons, Sonya 'The Black Widow' Thomas, David 'Coondog' O'Karma, Eric 'Badlands' Booker, Timothy 'Eater X' Janus - just a few of the stars of one of America's fastest growing sports: competitive eating. In a country in which a third of the population is clinically obese, competitive eating has made the leap from trestle tables and paper napkins to stadium arenas - in the past two years, more than 1.4 million households have tuned in to Nathan's hot dog contest on ESPN. Beginning with a trip to Japan in search of the elusive (and surprising slim-line) champion Takeru Kobayashi and ending up at the sport's annual grand finale in Coney Island, Jason Fagone spends a year with the stars of the scene, watching as they eat their way into (or out of) oblivion, and finding out just what compels a 'gurgitator' to force down forty-six dozen oysters in ten minutes. Wickedly funny and devastatingly insightful, Jason Fagone uses this weirdest of sports as a lens through which to examine the dark side of the American Dream - the never-ending quest for wealth, celebrity, possessions and food....

Beginner's Japanese

Autor: Joanne Redmond Claypoole

Número de Páginas: 322

Book & CDs. This popular instruction book, ideal for both individual and classroom use, is now accompanied by 2 audio CDs! The 25 lessons combine dialogues with easy-to-follow grammatical explanations. Sidebars feature vocabulary, cultural information, and helpful tips for travellers and businesspeople. Other features include an introduction to hiragana and katakana writing systems, and a Japanese-English/English-Japanese glossary. The aduio CDs complement the dialogue and vocabulary sections of each lesson, helping the reader to understand the language as spoken.

Le japonais pour les Nuls en voyage, édition 2017-18

Autor: Vincent Grepinet

Número de Páginas: 183

Un guide de conversation super pratique et en couleurs, avec un mini-dictionnaire inclus + du contenu MP3 offert, à 7,95 € ! Sushi, maki, saké, bento, bonsaï, geisha, karaté, kimono, soja... Jusque-là, le japonais, c'est facile. Mais quand il s'agit de réserver un billet de train, de prendre une chambre d'hôtel ou de commander un repas au restaurant, ça devient plus compliqué. Ce guide de conversation est fait pour vous ! Il décrit toutes les situations courantes que peuvent rencontrer les voyageurs : - s'adresser à un tour operator - faire une réservation - emprunter les transports - visiter une ville, les musées... - faire des achats et utiliser des services - sortir et faire des activités - gérer les urgences L'accent est mis sur les besoins spécifiques des voyageurs mais l'ouvrage contient également des astuces facilitant l'apprentissage et l'utilisation du japonais et des infos culturelles sur les coutumes et spécialités japonaises. Alors, vous partez quand ? Avec un mini-dictionnaire + du contenu MP3 offerts !

Tectonic Evolution of the Bering Shelf-Chukchi Sea-Arctic Margin and Adjacent Landmasses

Autor: Elizabeth L. Miller , Arthur Grantz , Simon Klemperer

Número de Páginas: 414

CD-ROM contains: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Database and Supplementary Data for Chapters.

Yume

Autor: Sifton Tracey Anipare

Número de Páginas: 518

A captivating fantasy novel about demons, dreams, and a young woman teaching English in Japan. “With empathetic characters, terrifying monsters, and a cinematic feel, Yume is a dream that will keep readers awake at night.” — RICHARD FORD BURLEY, author of Displacement Cybelle teaches English in a small city in Japan. Her contract is up for renewal, her mother is begging her to come back to Canada, and she is not sure where she belongs anymore. She faces ostracism and fear daily, but she loves her job, despite its increasing difficulties. She vows to do her best — even when her sleep, appetite, and life in general start to get weird, and conforming to the rules that once helped her becomes a struggle. Meanwhile, yokai feast and cavort around Osaka and Kyoto as the barrier between their world and the human world thins. Zaniel spends his nights walking the dream world and serving his demon “bodyguard,” Akki. But there is a new yokai on the scene, and it has gotten on Akki’s bad side. When Cybelle gets caught up in the supernatural clash, she has to figure out what is real and, more importantly, what she really wants ... before her life spirals out of control altogether. ...

Los años tristes de Kawabata

Autor: Miguel Sardegna

Número de Páginas: 109

"Los kanjis no son palabras, sino imágenes, conceptos. A diferencia de nuestro alfabeto, un kanji no se lee, se mira. El kanji de 'árbol' es el dibujo de un árbol. Los japoneses no leen la palabra árbol, sino que miran el árbol", explica Facundo, profesor de literatura japonesa. Días atrás, una voz desconocida le comunicó la muerte de su padre. Desde ese momento, a Facundo lo envuelven la confusión y los recuerdos; su madre, su padre, la muerte y un pacto de silencio que lo acompaña hasta el presente. El protagonista de esta novela descubrirá en Kawabata un amigo y un maestro, que lo ayudará a resignificar su historia familiar, y en la cultura japonesa, las palabras para encontrar belleza en las circunstancias más atroces. Miguel Sardegna nos introduce en el onírico mundo de Japón a través de su mirada ávida de conocimiento y de una trama que nos atrapa para siempre en esta maravillosa cultura ancestral.

Shōjo Across Media

Autor: Jaqueline Berndt , Kazumi Nagaike , Fusami Ogi

Número de Páginas: 401

Since the 2000s, the Japanese word shōjo has gained global currency, accompanying the transcultural spread of other popular Japanese media such as manga and anime. The term refers to both a character type specifically, as well as commercial genres marketed to female audiences more generally. Through its diverse chapters this edited collection introduces the two main currents of shōjo research: on the one hand, historical investigations of Japan’s modern girl culture and its representations, informed by Japanese-studies and gender-studies concerns; on the other hand, explorations of the transcultural performativity of shōjo as a crafted concept and affect-prone code, shaped by media studies, genre theory, and fan-culture research. While acknowledging that shōjo has mediated multiple discourses throughout the twentieth century—discourses on Japan and its modernity, consumption and consumerism, non-hegemonic gender, and also technology—this volume shifts the focus to shōjo mediations, stretching from media by and for actual girls, to shōjo as media. As a result, the Japan-derived concept, while still situated, begins to offer possibilities for broader conceptualizations...

Focus On: 100 Most Popular Fantasy Anime and Manga

Autor: Wikipedia Contributors

Número de Páginas: 1062

Seeing Like a Citizen

Autor: Kara Moskowitz

Número de Páginas: 341

In Seeing Like a Citizen, Kara Moskowitz approaches Kenya’s late colonial and early postcolonial eras as a single period of political, economic, and social transition. In focusing on rural Kenyans—the vast majority of the populace and the main targets of development interventions—as they actively sought access to aid, she offers new insights into the texture of political life in decolonizing Kenya and the early postcolonial world. Using multisited archival sources and oral histories focused on the western Rift Valley, Seeing Like a Citizen makes three fundamental contributions to our understanding of African and Kenyan history. First, it challenges the widely accepted idea of the gatekeeper state, revealing that state control remained limited and that the postcolonial state was an internally varied and often dissonant institution. Second, it transforms our understanding of postcolonial citizenship, showing that its balance of rights and duties was neither claimed nor imposed, but negotiated and differentiated. Third, it reorients Kenyan historiography away from central Kenya and elite postcolonial politics. The result is a powerful investigation of experiences of...

Sound Patterns in Interaction

Autor: Elizabeth Couper-kuhlen , Cecilia E. Ford

Número de Páginas: 416

This collection of original papers by eminent phoneticians, linguists and sociologists offers the most recent findings on phonetic design in interactional discourse available in an edited collection. The chapters examine the organization of phonetic detail in relation to social actions in talk-in-interaction based on data drawn from diverse languages: Japanese, English, Finnish, and German, as well as from diverse speakers: children, fluent adults and adults with language loss. Because similar methodology is deployed for the investigation of similar conversational tasks in different languages, the collection paves the way towards a cross-linguistic phonology for conversation. The studies reported in the volume make it clear that language-specific constraints are at work in determining exactly which phonetic and prosodic resources are deployed for a given purpose and how they articulate with grammar in different cultures and speech communities.

Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out! Vol. 1

Autor: Take

Número de Páginas: 152

'" Sakurai Shinichi''s one wish is for a little peace and quiet. But Uzaki Hana--his boisterous, well-endowed underclassman--has other plans. All she wants is to hang out and poke fun at him. With the help of her chipper charm and peppy persistence, this might just be the start of a beautiful relationship! Fans of slice-of-life comedy are sure to enjoy this new "odd couple" tale about misadventures in a college setting. "'

Global Goes Local

Autor: Timothy J. Craig , Richard King

Número de Páginas: 321

Cheap mechanical and satellite transmissions have made a predominantly North American culture available to a global audience. Does this mean that rock ’n’ roll, soap opera reruns, and professional wrestling will destroy Asian traditions and leave Asian nations to produce nothing but imitations of a shallow, hedonistic alien culture? Far from it! In Global Goes Local, international scholars from a variety of disciplinary perspectives examine different forms of popular culture in Asia. Covering topics from pop music in Korea to TV commercials in Malaysia, this collection shows how imported cultural forms can be invested with fresh meaning and transformed by local artists to result in new forms of assertion and resistance that also meet the needs of their particular audiences. Global Goes Local addresses significant questions being considered by scholars of popular culture and offers case studies of how culture suffers, survives, or prospers in Asian communities in an age of global communication.

Becoming Intercultural

Autor: Yau Tsai

Número de Páginas: 248

As people move into the new era of the twenty-first century, they will have more and more opportunities to communicate and interact with others using foreign languages. While this will naturally generate wide-ranging intercultural experience, people may not be alert to it in everyday life, and teachers may not know how to address the issues that arise. This book starts by exploring what it means to be intercultural from different theoretical standpoints, before contrasting ways in which people do (or do not) become intercultural in both tutored and untutored ways, inside and outside the classroom. The main purpose of this book is to introduce the concept of interculturality, to examine how it can emerge in an unplanned way and to consider ways in which it can be more systematically addressed through education, particularly through foreign language education.

Conversational Storytelling Among Japanese Women

Autor: Mariko Karatsu

Número de Páginas: 236

This book presents research findings on the overall process of storytelling as a social event in Japanese everyday conversations focusing on the relationship between a story and surrounding talks, the social and cultural aspects of the participants, and the tellability of conversational stories. Focusing on the participants' verbal and nonverbal behavior and their use of linguistic devices, the chapters describe how the participants display their orientation to the a) embeddedness of the story in the conversation, b) their views of past events, c) their knowledge about the story content and elements, and d) their social circumstances, and how these four elements are relevant for a story becoming worth telling and sharing. The book furthers the sociolinguistic analysis of conversational storytelling by describing how the participants' concerns about social circumstances as members of a particular community, specifically their role relationships and interpersonal relationships with others, influence the shape of their storytelling.

Skiing

Número de Páginas: 190

Listenership Behaviours in Intercultural Encounters

Autor: Keiko Tsuchiya

Número de Páginas: 252

How do people listen in a conversation, especially in an intercultural setting, and how do they shift from listener to speaker in the particular context? This book investigates listenership behaviours of a tutor and a student in the context of academic supervision sessions at a university in the UK, comparing British tutor - British student conversations with British tutor - Japanese student conversations in English. A new research methodology, a time-aligned multimodal corpus analysis, is introduced for analysing listenership and turn-taking structure, synthesising visual data with verbal data in timeline. The method also integrates discourse-pragmatic and conversation analytic approaches with the corpus-based analysis. This work reports strategies in use of response tokens for framework shifts and multi-functional nature of hand gestures observed in the conversations. Therefore, this book is highly relevant for researchers and postgraduate students, who study pragmatic and discursive practice in intercultural settings using multimodal corpora.

Memoirs of a Happy Warrior

Autor: Roxanne Modafferi

Número de Páginas: 755

Memoirs of a Happy Warrior is an autobiographical account of professional mixed martial arts fighter Roxanne Modafferi. The book takes place over the course of two years when Roxanne decided to move from the United States to Japan for her junior year of college. After settling in with her host family and figuring out how become more Japanese, Roxanne immediately continued her martial arts training. From there, she embarked on her professional MMA career and never looked back. Roxanne toppled several tough opponents and eventually pulled off the remarkable feat of capturing the IFC middleweight championship. Memoirs of a Happy Warrior takes you, the reader, on her journey of becoming lost in Tokyo and its surrounding cities, figuring out how to use the country’s public transportation, living in the Mecca of anime and the birthplace of some of the most respected martial arts in the world. It wasn’t always easy for Roxanne, though, as she often found herself struggling to communicate with those around her as well as suffering a nasty injury during one of the most crucial times of her early MMA career. Still, Roxanne persevered and tackled some of the toughest women in Japanese...

Japanese Questions: Discourse, Context and Language

Autor: Lidia Tanaka

Número de Páginas: 265

Questions and interrogatives in Japanese discourse have attracted considerable interest from grammarians, but the communicative aspect has received little attention. This book fills this gap. Through detailed analyses of formal and informal interactions, this book demonstrates that the inherent multi-functional and polysemous aspect of language can also be observed in the use of questions. What emerges is a sense of the considerable variety of question forms and also an understanding of how questions are used to perform a wide range of social actions. The importance of context is stressed throughout the book; both in guiding the speakers' choices of question types and in helping to create the particular stance that characterizes those interactions. The data used in this book shows that speakers prefer questions that are not canonical. When speakers do use canonical questions, these are overwhelmingly accompanied by some mollifiers. This phenomenon suggests that in Japanese communication the illocutionary force of canonical questions is too strong. To soften the interaction, speakers tend to use other types of interrogative forms such as statements with rising intonation or, at...