Chinese, Japanese, South (and North) Koreans in East Asia have a long, intertwined and distinguished cultural history and have achieved, or are in the process of achieving, spectacular economic success. Together, these three peoples make up one quarter of the world population. T…
This book presents a study designed to triangulate the core meanings of expressions across English, German and Japanese. Native speakers of the three languages were asked to design visual representations of expressions referring to baldness phenomena in an online experiment. The…
Extrait de la 4e de couverture : "Designed to serve as a comprehensive, yet concise, reference book for researchers interested in the Japanese language and in typological studies of language in general, this handbook explores the diverse and intriguing characteristics of Japanes…