The Principles of Japanese Linguistics: The formation and development of an expressive process theory of language

By Motoki Tokieda

The text is arranged in order for the Japanese original to come first and the English translation to follow page by page. It contains the complete Japanese original. The readers can see the linearity of the Japanese script. Motoki Tokieda had a sense that the traditional view of language estranged itself either from the essential theory of language or the methodology for systematic organization of the national language. He found Akira Suzuki's theory on SHI and JI in a historical study of the national language which had been sunk in waves of modernization on and after the Meiji era, and tried to theoretically re-construct it, which is the origin of this book. An expressive process theory of language presumes a subject's process of expression up to sounds and characters itself to be language. The theory on sounds, SHI and JI, and the nest form structure are assumed to be an index to the systematic organization of the national language, though they are developed along a traditional paradigm like phonetics, morphology, and syntax.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1727491173
• ISBN13: 9781727491173
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 594 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.3" x 5.8"