Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-332) and indexes.
Contents:
Subject index. Introduction -- Toward pragmatic and discourse studies of speaking selves -- Pragmatic studies of a speech genre -- The discourse of Japanese popular culture -- Data -- Selection -- Transcription and translation -- Fluid orality -- The orality-literacy debate and beyond -- From orality to literacy -- Secondary orality and digital orality -- Fluid orality in popular culture discourse -- Fluid orality in the discourse of Japanese popular culture -- Conversational narration and the centrality of orality -- Fictionalized variation and the fluidity of style shifts -- Simulated conversation in narration -- Speaker, speaking selves, and fluid selves -- Speaker, speaking selves, and partner -- The myth of the ideal and autonomous speaker -- Divided selves, "dividuals, " and fluid selves -- Character and character-speak -- Character in the West and in Japan -- Emergence of the character in the West -- The character phenomenon in contemporary Japan -- Character in Japanese popular culture criticism -- Concepts of character and characteristic -- Defining character and characteristic -- Psychology of Japans character culture -- Character-speak: Background -- Beyond Bakhtin : Heteroglossia, polyphony, and the character zone in popular culture -- Borrowed style as precursor to character-speak -- Character-speak : Manipulating characters and characteristics -- Character-speak and expressive meanings -- Character-speak and aspects of indexical signs -- Manipulating characters and characteristics -- Character-speak in context -- Character-speak and performance -- Other approaches : Role language and utterance character -- Light novels : Character-speak and variation in quoted speech -- Introduction -- Defining light novels -- Crossover and mixed genres -- Background : Quoted speech in novels and light novels -- Quoted speech in novels -- Simulating orality in quoted speech -- Quoted speech features in light novels -- Youth language -- Self-performed sound effects -- Creating characters through quoted speech -- Character-speak and fictional variations -- Character-differentiating quoted speech in Kino no Tabi -- Fluid orality and characteristics -- Fluidity of old-man language and archaic styles -- Fictionalized dialects and temporary characteristics -- Shiftng styles in quoted speech and characteristics -- Tsundere and conversational moves -- Tsundere character: Features and language -- Tsundere conversational moves in the Suzumya Haruhi series -- Particle yo and tsundere attitude -- Reflections -- Talk shows: Fluid orality in gender-evoking variation -- Introduction -- Matsuko Derakkusu and media presence -- Masaharu Fukuyama and radio talk shows -- Table of contents -- Background: Onee kotoba, gender, and language -- Beyond gendered and ideologized language -- Onee kotoba as a gender-evoking indexical sign -- Consumption of onee culture and onee character-speak in postmodern Japan -- Marketing the onee character : Matsuko Derakkusu -- Features of Matsuko's onee character-speak -- Criticizing, ordering, and self-deprecating -- Conversation management, audience involvement, and media sawy -- Fluidity of gender-evoking character-speak -- Fluid orality in playful voices : Masako, the Housewife -- Character presentation in Fukuyama Masaharu no SUZUKI Talking FM -- Masakos character-speak and emotional expressions -- Giving advice in Masakos voice -- Grousing and scolding -- Fluid transitions : Masako, Masaharu, and Fukuyama -- Reflections -- Keetai novels : Narrator's character-speak in conversational narration -- Introduction -- Defining keetai novels -- Keetai novel as genre and culture -- Keetai novel as self-narrative and its readership -- Background : novelistic discourse -- Approaches to the novel -- I-novel and keetai novel -- Language of narration in keetai novels -- Overview -- Conversational narration -- Fragmentation of speech -- Appealing to the reader -- Character-speak in self-narrative -- Self-awareness and narrators character -- Narrator as tsukkomi character -- Internal conversation : mediating quoted speech and narration -- Fluid orality through variation and rhetoric -- Yankii language and narrators character -- Fluid style shifts and narrators characteristics -- Narrator's performance through irony, punning, and mojiri -- Reflections -- Manga : Fluidity of multilayered speech in floating whispers -- Introduction -- Japanese manga and girls' manga -- NANA and Yamatonadeshiko Shichihenge -- Background : internal monologue and visual signs in manga and girls' manga -- Speech balloons and thought bubbles -- Internal monologue in girls' manga -- Multimodal approaches to manga -- Fluid orality and polyphony in manga -- Internal monologue in Hotto Roodo -- Multilayered voices in Ribaazu Ejji -- Floating whispers in NANA and Yamatonadeshiko Shichihenge -- Floating whispers : definition and function -- Floating whispers and visual context -- Multilayerd speech in NANA and Yamatonadeshiko Shichihenge -- Multilayered internal monologue -- Unspoken conversation -- Narrative voice and inter-genre expressivity in floating whispers -- Character-speak and fluid orality in floating whispers -- Characters of Nana Komatsu and Nana Oosaki -- Contrasting Kyoohei with others -- Sunako's character-speak and visual context -- Reflections -- Drama : fluid orality in place-evoking fictionalized variations -- Introduction -- Dialect as a place-evoking variation -- Hanako to An and character identification -- Ama-chan : an overview -- Ama-chan : the story -- Background : fictional dialect and temporary style -- Production of the fictional Sodegahama dialect -- Fictional variation, character, and characteristic -- Table of contents -- Fluid orality in Ama-chan : use and non-use of the Sodegahama dialect -- From dialect to standard speech -- Dialect awareness and meta-comment -- Character-speak of major participants in the drama -- Aki's character and her adventure in fictionalized variation -- Yui's character-speak and identity struggle -- Haruko's life journey and adopted variations -- Narrators' character-speak and polyphony -- Natsu and polyphonic narrative style -- Narrative voices : contrasting Haruko and Aki -- Addressing audience and the narrator's character -- Reflections -- Reflections and aspirations -- Fluidity of characters and fluidity of speaking selves -- Toward pragmatic and discourse studies of speaking selves -- Appendix : presentation of data in Japanese orthography -- References -- Data references -- Author index -- Subject index.
Series:
Pragmatics & beyond new series, 0988-842X ; volume 263
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