Full Description
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 in 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.
Contents
ContentsPrefaceTo the ReaderList of AbbreviationsAcknowledgementsChapter 1: "Toolbox": Essential Grammar for Scholarly Reading 11. Understanding Written Style2. Finding the Predicate and the Subject2.1 Finding the Predicate: The Ending of a Sentence2.2 Finding the Subject2.2.1 When the Particle Marks the Subject2.2.2 When the Particle Marks the Subject2.2.3 When the Particle Marks the Subject2.2.4 When the Particle Marks the Subject2.2.5 Other Particles That Mark the Subject2.2.6 Cases in Which the Subject is Omitted3. Separating Sentences Based on Meaning (Chunking)3.1 Compound Sentences: Listing with the -Form3.1.1 Connecting Verbs3.1.2 Connecting I-adjectives3.1.3 Connecting Na-adjectives3.1.4 Connecting Nouns 3.2 The Suspended Form Method ( ) 3.2.1 Verbs 3.2.2 I-adjectives 3.3 ‾ 'what's more; not only ‾ but also.'3.4 X Y 'Y called X'3.4.1 X (Clause) Y (Noun) 3.4.2 X (Noun) Y (Noun) 3.5 S1 S2 'S1, but / and S2'3.5.1 BUT / (Concessive Connection) 3.5.2 AND / (Simple Connection) 3.6 Conditional Expressions 203.6.1 S , S / N , S , and S 'If / When' 3.6.2 Other Often-Used Conditional Expressions, ‾ 'in case of; in the case (of)' and ‾ 4. Sentence-Ending Expressions 4.1 Explaining a Circumstance / / 4.2 Rhetorical Questions ‾( ) / 4.3 Softening of a Claim/Conclusion 4.3.1 ‾ / 4.3.2 ‾ / 5. Defining Expressions X Y '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 Negative8.5.2 and Recollective8.5.3 and Copular/Declarative8.5.4 , , and Perfective8.5.5 Advice, Appropriateness, Potential, Intentional, Speculative, and Command8.5.6 and Passive, Potential, Honorific, and Spontaneous8.5.7 Comparative8.5.8 Causative8.5.9 Speculative, Intentional, and Circumlocution8.5.10 Negative Speculative and Negative Intentional8.6 Conjunctive Particles 8.6.1 Hypothetical / Logical Connections8.6.2 , , , and Concessive Connections8.6.3 and Causal, Concessive, and Simple Connections8.6.4 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 1.3 The -Form as a Conjunction 1.4 Subordinate Clauses: Clauses with Conjunctive Particles 1.4.1 Concessive 1.4.2 Reason Clause 1.4.3 Conjunctive Particle '(and) what is more' 2. Summary 3. Exercises Chapter 2 Section 2: Chapter 2 Section 3: Chapter 2 Section 4: Chapter 2 Section 5: Chapter 2 Section 6: Chapter 2 Section 7: Chapter 2 Section 8: Answers Bibliography Index Chapter 1 Index (Expressions) Auxiliary Verb Conjugations
