Language and Culture with Special Reference to Japanese

This article deals with some of the issues which come up whenever we try to understand the position of man in relation to himself, language and society. The focus of the paper is on speech and whether or not the speech-act is deter­mined by factors external to the individual speaker. It is  regard...

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Main Author: Karl Jurgen Kampmark
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaya 2017-07-01
Series:Journal of Modern Languages
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Online Access:http://borneojournal.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/3967
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description This article deals with some of the issues which come up whenever we try to understand the position of man in relation to himself, language and society. The focus of the paper is on speech and whether or not the speech-act is deter­mined by factors external to the individual speaker. It is  regarded as a  truism that language is what primarily distinguishes man from other life-forms and that  'between the clearest animal call of love or war­ning or  anger, and man's least  trivial word there  lies a  whole day  of  Creation', as Langer (1967) mentions.
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spelling doaj-art-97c1126a3ad34ba1ad4fc38b38c8eb212024-11-27T18:59:47ZengUniversiti MalayaJournal of Modern Languages1675-526X2462-19862017-07-0121Language and Culture with Special Reference to JapaneseKarl Jurgen Kampmark0University of Malaya, Malaysia This article deals with some of the issues which come up whenever we try to understand the position of man in relation to himself, language and society. The focus of the paper is on speech and whether or not the speech-act is deter­mined by factors external to the individual speaker. It is  regarded as a  truism that language is what primarily distinguishes man from other life-forms and that  'between the clearest animal call of love or war­ning or  anger, and man's least  trivial word there  lies a  whole day  of  Creation', as Langer (1967) mentions. http://borneojournal.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/3967Japanese language; Japanese culture; language and society
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Language and Culture with Special Reference to Japanese
Journal of Modern Languages
Japanese language; Japanese culture; language and society
title Language and Culture with Special Reference to Japanese
title_full Language and Culture with Special Reference to Japanese
title_fullStr Language and Culture with Special Reference to Japanese
title_full_unstemmed Language and Culture with Special Reference to Japanese
title_short Language and Culture with Special Reference to Japanese
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topic Japanese language; Japanese culture; language and society
url http://borneojournal.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/3967
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