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Situated Meaning: Inside and Outside in Japanese Self, Society, and Language
By (Author) Jane M. Bachnik
Edited by Charles J. Quinn
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
26th March 2019
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
306.0952
Hardback
336
Width 203mm, Height 254mm
Situated Meaning adds a new dimension, both literal and metaphoric, to our understanding of Japan. The essays in this volume leave the vertical axis of hierarchy and subordination-an organizing trope in much of the literature on Japan-and focus instead on the horizontal, interpreting a wide range of cultural practices and orientations in terms of s