Author: Natsuko Tsujimura
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498569250
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
This book demonstrates how silence is conceptualized and represented in Japanese language and culture. A cluster of sounds in nature and onomatopoeic vocabulary enable verbal portrayals of silence consistent with a cultural pattern of practices that value sensate and affective reactions.