The third edition of this established textbook has been thoroughly updated and revised. It maintains its broad coverage of topics from phonetics to language var
Introduces pragmatics, discourse, language, and culture in the Japanese context. It covers: Language in context; Japanese in conversation; Honorifics and polite
This volume is the first comprehensive handbook of Japanese phonetics and phonology describing the basic phonetic and phonological structures of modern Japanese
The core data is laid out, followed by critical discussion of the various approaches found in the literature. Each chapter ends with a section on how the study