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A Practical Guide for Scholarly Reading in Japanese

✍ Scribed by Fumiko Nazikian, Keiko Ono, Naofumi Tatsumi


Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
Tongue
English
Leaves
281
Series
Routledge Practical Academic Reading Skills
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


A Practical Guide for Scholarly Reading in Japanese is an innovative reference guide for scholars specializing in Asian studies, with a special focus on Chinese studies. The book aims to prepare those scholars to conduct research with primary sources from a variety of genres from the 20th century.

The book contains concise descriptions of grammar points essential for reading scholarly writings in Japanese and exercises based on excerpts taken from prominent Japanese scholarly texts. Each exercise reading provides a list of vocabulary and explanations of expressions. The reading materials provided mainly cover Chinese history, comparative literature, religion, and culture.

The book can be used as a textbook or self-study guide for scholars of Asian studies, as well as students who have completed two years of basic language learning and need to learn to read scholarly Japanese.

✦ Table of Contents


Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
To the Reader
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: "Toolbox": Essential Grammar for Scholarly Reading
1. Understanding Written Style
2. Finding the Predicate and the Subject
2.1 Finding the Predicate: The Ending of a Sentence
2.2 Finding the Subject
2.2.1 When the Particle が Marks the Subject
2.2.2 When the Particle の Marks the Subject
2.2.3 When the Particle は Marks the Subject
2.2.4 When the Particle も Marks the Subject
2.2.5 Other Particles That Mark the Subject
2.2.6 Cases in Which the Subject is Omitted
3. Separating Sentences Based on Meaning (Chunking)
3.1 Compound Sentences: Listing with the て-Form
3.1.1 Connecting Verbs
3.1.2 Connecting I-adjectives
3.1.3 Connecting Na-adjectives
3.1.4 Connecting Nouns
3.2 The Suspended Form Method
3.2.1 Verbs
3.2.2 I-adjectives
3.3 〜し 'what's more; not only ~ but also'
3.4 X という Y 'Y called X'
3.4.1 X (Clause) という Y (Noun)
3.4.2 X (Noun) という Y (Noun)
3.5 S1 が、 S2 'S1, but/and S2'
3.5.1 BUT/ (Concessive Connection)
3.5.2 AND/ (Simple Connection)
3.6 Conditional Expressions
3.6.1 S たら, S/N なら, S ば, and S と 'If/When'
3.6.2 Other Often-Used Conditional Expressions, 〜 'in case of; in the case (of)' and 〜 'as long as'
3.7 Conditional Expressions with Concessive Conjunctions ても and とも 'even though; even if'
3.8 Review Exercises
4. Sentence-Ending Expressions
4.1 Explaining a Circumstance のだ/のである/のです
4.2 Rhetorical Questions ~(の)ではないか/だろうか
4.3 Softening of a Claim/Conclusion
4.3.1
4.3.2
5. Defining Expressions X を Y とする 'regard X as Y'
6. Particles
6.1 Compound Particles
6.2 Particle Equivalent Phrases
7. Kanji
7.1 (Kanji Made in Japan)
7.2 Chinese Character(s) Used for Its Phonetic Sound
7.3 Simplified Kanji
7.4 Japanese-Chinese Homographs
7.5 Japanese-Chinese Homophones
8. Classical Japanese Grammar (for Reading Academic Articles from the Meiji Era Onwards)
8.1 Historical Kana Orthography
8.2 Inflected Forms
8.3 Verbs
8.4 Adjectives and Adjectival Verbs
8.4.1 Adjectives (i-adjectives)
8.4.2 Adjectival Verbs (na-adjectives)
8.5 Auxiliary Verbs
8.5.1 ず Negative
8.5.2 き and けり Recollective
8.5.3 なり and たり Copular/Declarative
8.5.4 たり, り, and ぬ Perfective
8.5.5 べし Advice, Appropriateness, Potential, Intentional, Speculative, and Command
8.5.6 る and らる Passive, Potential, Honorific, and Spontaneous
8.5.7 ごとし Comparative
8.5.8 しむ Causative
8.5.9 む Speculative, Intentional, and Circumlocution
8.5.10 まい Negative Speculative and Negative Intentional
8.6 Conjunctive Particles
8.6.1 ば Hypothetical/Logical Connections
8.6.2 とも, ど, ども, and も Concessive Connections
8.6.3 に and を Causal, Concessive, and Simple Connections
8.6.4 して Causal, Concessive, and Simple Connections
8.7 Attributive Form + Particle
9. The Influence of Chinese Texts in Japanese
9.1 Expressions Used for Japanese Readings
9.1.1 Causative Expressions
9.1.2
9.2 Verbification, Adjectivization, and Adverbization
Chapter 2 Section 1: What Are Modifiers? (Mechanisms of Modifying Sentences in Japanese)
1.1 Modifying Nouns
1.2 The Particle は
1.3 The て-Form as a Conjunction
1.4 Subordinate Clauses: Clauses with Conjunctive Particles
1.4.1 Concessive のに
1.4.2 Reason Clause から
1.4.3 Conjunctive Particle し '(and) what is more'
2. Summary
3. Exercises
Chapter 2 Section 2: 中国史の時代区分問題をめぐって—現時点からの省察—
Chapter 2 Section 3: 中国古典詩のリズム—リズムの根源性と詩型の変遷—
Chapter 2 Section 4: 封建制度と家族道徳
Chapter 2 Section 5: 槪括的唐宋時代觀
Chapter 2 Section 6: 格調・神韻・性靈の三詩說を論ず
Chapter 2 Section 7: 兩漢文學考
Chapter 2 Section 8: 文人畫の原理
練習問題回答 Answers
Bibliography
Index Chapter 1
Index (Expressions)
Auxiliary Verb Conjugations


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