The Japanese Writing System

2017-06-05
The Japanese Writing System

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  • Author: Heath Rose
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1783098171
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 176

This is the first book devoted to exploring issues of learning written Japanese, focusing on the challenges the writing system poses for the second language learner. It weaves together previous research on Japanese second language acquisition and kanji learning with original studies on self-regulation and kanji learning strategies. It provides the most comprehensive overview of the Japanese writing system and kanji learning to date; helps further our understanding of second language writing acquisition and offers new directions for research in the wider fields of language learning strategies, motivation and self-regulation. Each chapter concludes with a brief discussion of the implications of the content of the chapter for the Japanese language learner, instructor and researcher. It will appeal to researchers of the teaching and learning of Japanese as a foreign/second language, the Japanese writing system and second language acquisition, as well as to instructors and learners of Japanese who are struggling with the teaching and learning of kanji.

Japanese Kanji & Kana

2013-02-19
Japanese Kanji & Kana

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  • Author: Wolfgang Hadamitzky
  • Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
  • ISBN: 1462910181
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 995

This comprehensive book helps you learn the 92 basic Kana characters and 2,136 standard Kanji characters. Complete, compact and authoritative--this Japanese language book provides all the information needed to learn kanji and kana, including the 92 basic hiragana and katakana phonetic symbols (known collectively as Japanese Kana) and the 2,136 standard Joyo Kanji characters that every Japanese person learns in school. This new and completely revised edition reflects recent changes made to the official Joyo kanji list by the Japanese government. The kana and kanji are presented in an easy and systematic way that helps you learn them quickly and retain what you have learned and improve your mastery of the Japanese language. The ability to read Japanese and write Japanese is an essential skill for any student and will build on their previous knowledge and improve their overall capacity to learn Japanese. A concise index allows you to look up the Kanji in three different ways (so the book also serves as a Japanese Kanji dictionary) and extra spaces are provided to allow you to practice writing Japanese. Japanese Kanji and Kana contains: All 2,136 official Joyo kanji with readings and definitions. Characters are graded by their JLPT examination levels. Up to 5 useful vocabulary compounds for each kanji. Brush and pen cursive forms as well as printed forms. 19 tables summarizing key information about the characters. Kanji lookup indexes by radicals, stroke counts and readings.

The History of the Japanese Written Language

1984
The History of the Japanese Written Language

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  • Author: Yaeko Sato Habein
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Japanese language
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 250

Neurolinguistic Aspects of the Japanese Writing System

2013-10-22
Neurolinguistic Aspects of the Japanese Writing System

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  • Author: Michel Paradis
  • Publisher: Academic Press
  • ISBN: 1483288943
  • Category : Medical
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 241

Neurolinguistic Aspects of the Japanese Writing System provides an account and an analysis of cases of dissociation between kana (syllabic) and kanji (ideographic) script in reading and/or writing. Organized into five chapters, this book begins by discussing the aspects of the Japanese writing system relevant to neurolinguistic research. Experimental kanji/kana processing studies and clinical case reports are then presented. This book also explains the clinical dissociations in performance between aspects of the writing system. This book will serve as a model for further studies in which a similarly detailed analysis is attempted of the neurolinguistic structure of other non-Western orthographies.

The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System

2016-07-15
The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System

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  • Author: Vivian Cook
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 131736581X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 565

The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System provides a comprehensive account of the English writing system, both in its current iteration and highlighting the developing trends that will influence its future. Twenty-nine chapters written by specialists from around the world cover core linguistic and psychological aspects, and also include areas from other disciplines such as typography and computer-mediated communication. Divided into five parts, the volume encompasses a wide range of approaches and addresses issues in the following areas: theory and the English writing system, discussing the effects of etymology and phonology; the history of the English writing system from its earliest development, including spelling, pronunciation and typography; the acquisition and teaching of writing, with discussions of literacy issues and dyslexia; English writing in use around the world, both in the UK and America, and also across Europe and Japan; computer-mediated communication and developments in writing online and on social media. The Routledge Handbook of the English Writing System is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students working in this area.

The Chinese Writing System in Asia

2019-11-04
The Chinese Writing System in Asia

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  • Author: Yu Li
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000699064
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 351

The Chinese Writing System in Asia: An Interdisciplinary Perspective integrates a diverse range of disciplinary approaches in examining how the Chinese script represents and actively shapes personal and social identities in and beyond Asia. It is an ideal read for students and scholars interested in a broad and culturally rich introduction to research on the Chinese writing system. It can also serve as the main text of an undergraduate course on the subject. Key features of this volume include: Insights from studies of the Chinese writing system in linguistics, script reform and technology, gender, identity, literature, and the visual arts; Examples embedded in inquiries of the cultural history and contemporary society of Asia; Rigorous yet accessible discussions of complex concepts and phenomena that assume no prior knowledge of Asian languages or linguistics; Supplementary multimedia materials and resources, including instructional support, available online.

Second Language Writing Systems

2005-05-23
Second Language Writing Systems

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  • Author: Vivian Cook
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1788920309
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 466

Second Language Writing Systems looks at how people learn and use a second language writing system, arguing that they are affected by characteristics of the first and second writing systems, to a certain extent independently of the languages involved. This book presents for the first time the effects of writing systems on language reading and writing and on language awareness, and provides a new platform for discussing bilingualism, biliteracy and writing systems. The approach is interdisciplinary, with contributions not only from applied linguists and psychologists but also corpus linguists, educators and phoneticians. A variety of topics are covered, from handwriting to spelling, word recognition to the mental lexicon, and language textbooks to metalinguistic awareness. Though most of the studies concern adult L2 learners and users, other populations covered include minority children, immersion students and bilingual children. While the emphasis is on English as the L2 writing system, many other writing systems are analysed as L1 or L2: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Gujarati, Indonesian, Irish, Italian and Japanese. Approaches that are represented include contrastive analysis, transfer, poststructuralism, connectionism and corpus analysis. The readership is SLA and bilingualism researchers, students and teachers around the world; language teachers will also find much food for thought.

Writing Systems

2003
Writing Systems

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  • Author: Florian Coulmas
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521787376
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 294

During its long history the problem of reducing language to writing, and conversely that of interpreting written signs as language, has found a variety of solutions which still exist in the form of different writing systems. Written by a leading expert, this new textbook provides an accessible introduction to the major writing systems of the world, from cuneiform to English spelling. Florian Coulmas presents detailed descriptions of the world's writing systems and explains their structural complexities as well as the intricate relationship between written and spoken language. The book also provides a clear and engaging account of the history of writing and its consequences for human thought and literate society. This illustrated textbook includes questions for discussion at the end of each chapter, and an up-to-date explanation of theoretical issues. Clearly organised and engagingly written, it is the ideal textbook for use on courses on writing systems.

A First Course in Japanese

2007
A First Course in Japanese

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  • Author: Fudeko Obazawa Reekie
  • Publisher: Pascal Press
  • ISBN: 9781741251883
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 402

A First Course in Japanese (2007 Edition) has been written specifical ly for students who are beginning their study of Japanese in the last tw o years of high school. The textbook is based on the new syllabus publis hed in 2006 and covers two years of study. It has three resources : the Course Book is based around six main topics. Each top ic has a number of units. Each unit begins with sentence structures foll owed by explanations of the structures. This is then followed by various texts, a grammar summary, Kanji, activities, cultural notes, vocabulary and remember of pictorial charts. the Workbook contains gramma tical exercises, listening, comprehension, composition and Kanji writing exercises. the CDs: the CD that comes with the Course Book cov ers all the sentence structures and dialogues. The Workbook CD covers al l the listening exercises, text and questions.

Writing Systems and Their Use

2022-06-21
Writing Systems and Their Use

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  • Author: Dimitrios Meletis
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 3110757893
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 359

Grapholinguistics, the multifaceted study of writing systems, is growing increasingly popular, yet to date no coherent account covering and connecting its major branches exists. This book now gives an overview of the core theoretical and empirical questions of this field. A treatment of the structure of writing systems—their relation to speech and language, their material features, linguistic functions, and norms, as well as the different types in which they come—is complemented by perspectives centring on the use of writing, incorporating psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic issues such as reading processes or orthographic variation as social action. Examples stem from a variety of diverse systems such as Chinese, English, Japanese, Arabic, Thai, German, and Korean, which allows defining concepts in a broadly applicable way and thereby constructing a comparative grapholinguistic framework that provides readers with important tools for studying any writing system. The book emphasizes that grapholinguistics is a discipline in its own right, inviting discussion and further research in this up-and-coming field as well as an overdue integration of writing into general linguistic discussion.