Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Fall 2012
Section 008A MWF 7 period (1:55-2:45 pm) Mat 108
Sakai site: http://lss.at.ufl.edu/
Instructor:
Office:
Phone:
Email:
Office hours:
Ann Wehmeyer
Associate Professor, Japanese and Linguistics
320 Pugh
th
273-2961
Sengai Gibon, Signs of the Universe, 19 c
awehmeye@ufl.edu
T 7th period, W 5th period, R 4th period & by appointment
Course prerequisites: JPN 1131 or permission of instructor. Previous study of linguistics will be a plus but is not
required.
Course objectives:
The goals of this course are to learn to understand and to analyze the structure of Japanese with the tools of
linguistics. We will focus on areas that are distinctive in terms of structural properties, and areas of Japanese that
pose challenges to linguistic analysis in terms of theory. Upon completion of the course, you will be able to
describe and analyze Japanese from the following perspectives:
In addition, a recurrent focus in the course will be to investigate the ways in which emotion is expressed in
Japanese. Emotion is an area of emerging research focus across many disciplines, including neuroscience,
psychology, anthropology, religion, linguistics, and animal science. Key to all is language. This focus will examine
the ways in which emotion is expressed through the lexicon, sentence final particles, mimetics, and grammatical
patterns of Japanese. Readings and discussions in this area will enhance your ability to:
Course materials:
Maynard, Senko K. 2005. Expressive Japanese: A Reference Guide for Sharing Emotion and Empathy. Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press. 0-8248-2889-5. This textbook is available at the UF Book Store in Reitz Union.
Tsujimura, Natsuko. 2007. An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics, Second Edition. Malden, Massachusetts:
Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-1065-5. This textbook is available at the UF Book Store in Reitz Union.
Course Reserves: Selected journal articles and book chapters in online reserves at UF library, indicated by CR in
the Daily Schedule. Go to http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/, and click on Course Reserves. After logging in, you will see a
menu of courses in which you are currently enrolled. Open JPN 4850/LIN 6571, and select the desired reading for
viewing or printing.
Policies and Expectations:
a.
The Honor Code: We, the members of the University of Florida community, pledge to hold ourselves and
our peers to the highest standards of honesty and integrity. On all work submitted for credit by students
at the university, the following pledge is either required or implied: "On my honor, I have neither given nor
received unauthorized aid in doing this assignment." All sources of information, including print, digital,
and verbal, must be acknowledged. Verbatim materials must be indicated as such with quotations marks,
and cited.
b.
Special Accommodations: Please let me know about any concerns regarding submission of assignments,
testing, or other class requirements. You are welcome to visit during office hours, catch me after class,
phone, or email. Students requesting classroom accommodation must first register with the Dean of
Students Office. The Dean of Students Office will provide documentation to the student who must then
provide this documentation to the Instructor when requesting accommodation.
c.
Attendance and Participation: Class sessions will combine lectures, discussions, media, and presentations.
Your attendance and active participation is essential to the success of the course, and to your grade.
d.
Read the assigned texts carefully ahead of time, and be prepared to discuss them on the date
that they appear in the Daily Schedule.
Exercises should be prepared ahead of time as you complete the readings, and should be
submitted to the instructor at the end of class on the date that they appear in the schedule.
Other assignments, as indicated on the Daily Schedule, are to be submitted to Assignments in the
Sakai course site and are due on the date indicated in the Daily Schedule/Assignments. Late
submissions will be assessed a penalty of one-half letter grade for each day beyond the deadline.
e.
f.
GEN ED
a.
This course counts as Social and Behavioral Sciences (S) and International (N).
Group Projects: Everyone will participate in one of the following Group Projects that will involve the
selection and analysis of data for presentation to the class. Sign up for a group in Sign Up on the Sakai
elearning site. One copy of the media for the Group Presentation must be submitted to Assignments in
elearning.
Affixation 1. Identify a productive affix in Japanese, and explain its meaning and process of word
formation with selected examples from Japanese. Refer to Tsujimura for processes of word formation.
Clear selection of affix with instructor.
2.
Affixation 2. Identify a productive affix in Japanese, and explain its meaning and process of word
formation with selected examples from Japanese. Refer to Tsujimura for processes of word formation.
Clear selection of affix with instructor.
Lexicon 1. Identify a set of nouns, verbs, or adjectives to compare and contrast with the similar set in
English. Ideally, this will be a set of words that do not share a one-to-one meaning equivalence with
the English counterpart set. Clear selection with instructor.
Lexicon 2. Identify a set of nouns, verbs, or adjectives to compare and contrast with the similar set in
English. Ideally, this will be a set of words that do not share a one-to-one meaning equivalence with
the English counterpart set. Clear selection with instructor.
Youth Slang (rykgo, wakamono-kotoba, shingo). Identify some contemporary neologisms that are
current among young people, and analyze for form and meaning.
Regional Dialect. Select a regional dialect, and outline its distinctive patterns of sound and/or
grammar to present to the class.
Expression of Emotion 1. Select a clip or segment from an anime, film or manga that illustrates use of
some of the lexical items or patterns presented in the readings assigned for this date.
Expression of Emotion 2. Select a clip or segment from an anime, film or manga that illustrates use of
some of the lexical items or patterns presented in the readings assigned for this date.
Expression of Emotion 3. Select a clip or segment from an anime, film or manga that illustrates use of
some of the lexical items or patterns presented in the readings assigned for this date.
Expression of Emotion 4. Select a clip or segment from an anime, film or manga that illustrates use of
some of the lexical items or patterns presented in the readings assigned for this date.
Exams
a.
b.
Grades:
Attendance and
participation
Exercises
Group presentation
Exam 1
Exam 2
Total
10%
15%
25%
25%
25%
100%
Grading scale: A (93-100), A- (90-92), B+ (87-89), B (83-86), B- (80-82), C+ (77-79), C (73-76), C- (70-72), D+
(67-69), D (63-66), D- (60-62), E (60 and below)
DAILY SCHEDULE
Date
Week 1
W
08/22/12
Topic
Assigned Readings
Introduction to course
F
08/24/12
Week 2
Phonetics
Exercises
Exercises 1-4, p.
20-21, Tsujimura
M
08/27/12
W
08/29/12
F
08/31/12
Accent under
suffixation
Week 3
M
09/03/12
W
09/05/12
F
09/07/12
Week 4
M
09/10/12
W
09/12/12
Exercise 9, p. 110,
Tsujimura
Exercises 3, p. 108;
8, 10, 11, p. 109111, Tsujimura
Lexical categories;
Word formation
Transitivity;
Nominalization
F
09/14/12
Compounds
Exercise 5, p.
203, Tsujimura
Affix 1, Group
presentation
Exercise 1, 2,
3, 4, 6, p. 201204, Tsujimura
Affix 2, Group
presentation
Week 5
M
09/17/12
Syntactic constituents,
Phrase structures
W
09/19/12
F
09/21/12
Configurationality and
scrambling; Classifiers
Anaphora, Reflexives,
Honorific marking
Exercises 7, 8, p.
338-339,
Tsujimura
Exercise 9, p. 339,
Tsujimura
Noun-modifying clauses
Week 6
M
09/24/12
W
09/26/12
Exercises 2-4, p.
335-336,
Tsujimura
F
09/28/12
Week 7
M
10/01/12
W
10/03/12
Unaccusativity, Light
verbs
Exam
F
10/05/12
Functional structure of
emotion in humans and
animals
Postposing and
emotion
Week 8
M
10/08/12
Meaningbasic
concepts; Metaphor
Exercise 5, p. 419,
Tsujimura
Lexicon 1, Group
presentation
W
10/10/12
F
10/12/12
Deixis, Pronouns
Week 9
M
10/15/12
Mimetics
W
10/17/12
Mimetics
F
10/19/12
Week 10
M
10/22/12
Syntax-semantics
interface
W
10/24/12
F
10/26/12
Week 11
M
10/29/12
Addressee honorifics
W
10/31/12
Referent honorifics
F
11/02/12
Quotation
Week 12
M
11/05/12
W
11/07/12
F
11/09/12
Week 13
M
11/12/12
W
11/14/12
Evidentials
F
Maynard, Chapters 4 & 5, p. 47-103.
Emotion 1, Group
11/16/12
presentation
Week 14
M
Evaluating, responding
Maynard, Chapters 6 & 7, p. 104-151.
Emotion 2, Group
11/19/12 emotionally
presentation
W
Intense emotions, Love Maynard, Chapters 8 & 9, p. 152-208.
11/21/12 and emotion
F
Thanksgiving Holiday, classes suspended.
11/23/12
Week 15
M
Conflict, Self-revelation Maynard, Chapters 10 & 11, p. 209-258.
Emotion 3, Group
11/26/12
presentation
W
Co-construction of
Maynard, Chapters 12 & 14, p. 259-285; 320-340.
11/28/12 emotion
F
Facilitating interaction
Maynard, Chapter 15, p. 341-365.
Emotion 4, Group
11/30/12
presentation
Week 16
M
Assertiveness, sarcasm
Maynard, Chapter 16, p. 366-402.
12/03/12
W
Exam 2
Exam 2 is a take-home exam, to be distributed in class
12/05/12
LIN 6571 Research paper findings presentations
Finals week
W
Submit your exam to Assignments in elearning by 12:00 pm. Use MS Word or PDF formats only, please.
12/12/12
Spahn, Mark and Wolfgang Hadamistzky. 1996. The Kanji Dictionary. Boston/Rutland/Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing.
Tian Zhongkui, Shoji Izuhara and Jin Xiangshun, eds. 1998. Ruigigo tsukaiwake jiten
(Dictionary of Synonym Differentiation). Tokyo: Kenkyusha.
Yamaguchi, Nakami. 2003. Kurashi no kotoba: Gion, gitaigo jiten. Kdansha.
Dialect Atlases
Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyjo, comps. Nihon gengo chizu (Linguistic Atlas of Japan). Tokyo: Kokuritsu
Kokugo Kenkyj, 1981-1985, 6 volumes.
Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyjo, comps. Hgen bunp zenkoku chizu (Grammar Atlas of Japanese
Dialects).Tokyo: kurash Insatsukyoku. 1989- (3 volumes).