Rethinking metalinguistic labels: spatio-temporal metalinguistic terms in learners’ dictionaries of Japanese expressions
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Japanese, metalinguistic label, semantic/functional index, grammar/expression dictionariesAbstract
Paper examines spatio-temporal metalinguistic terms in learners’ dictionaries of Japanese expressions in major existing dictionaries. Based on the analysis it proposes a layered metalinguistic labelling solution to achieve the greates efficiency with the smallest possible number of labels being employed.Downloads
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Goddard, Cliff and Anna Wierzbicka (2007). Semantic primes and cultural scripts in language learning and intercultural communication. In Gary Palmer and Farzad Sharifian (eds.), Applied Cultural Linguistics: Implications from second language learning and intercultural communication, pp.105-124. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Group JAMASSY (1998) Nihongo bunkei jiten. Tokyo: Kurosio.
Makino, Seiichi and Michio Tsutsui (2008). A Dictionary of Advanced Japanese Grammar. Tokyo: The Japan Times.
Labrador De La Cruz, Belén (2004). A Methodological Proposal for the Study of Semantic Functions across Languages. Meta: journal des traducteurs / Meta: Translators' Journal, Vol. 49/ 2, pp. 360-380.
Tomomatsu Etsuko et al. (2007/2010) Shinsōban donna toki dō tsukau nihongo hyōgen bunkei jiten. Tokyo: ARK.
Trobevšek Drobnak, Frančiška (2009). On the Merits and Shortcomings of Semantic Primes and Natural Semantic Metalanguage in Cross-Cultural Translation. English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries, Vol. VI/1-2, pp. 29-41.
Yaguello, Marina (1990) Gengo no musōsha: 17seiki fuhengengo kara gendai SF made (Les fous du langage: des langues imaginaires et de leurs inventeurs. Paris: Seuil 1984, transl. by Tanikawa Taeko, Eguchi Osamu). Tokyo: Kosakusha.
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BEKEŠ, A. (2014). Rethinking metalinguistic labels: spatio-temporal metalinguistic terms in learners’ dictionaries of Japanese expressions. Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 4(2), 9-23. https://doi.org/10.4312/ala.4.2.9-23
