Fluid Orality in the Discourse of Japanese Popular Culture.

Intro -- Fluid Orality in the Discourse of Japanese Popular Culture -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1. Preamble -- 2. Pragmatic studies of a speech genre -- 3. The discourse of Japanese popular culture -- 4. Data -- 4.1 Selection -- 4.2 Transcription and translation -- Chapter 2. Fluid orality -- 1. The orality-literacy debate and beyond -- 1.1 From orality to literacy -- 1.2 Secondary orality and digital orality -- 1.3 Fluid orality in popular culture discourse -- 2. Fluid orality in the discourse of Japanese popular culture -- 2.1 Conversational narration and the centrality of orality -- 2.2 Fictionalized variation and the fluidity of style shifts -- 2.3 Simulated conversation in narration -- 3. Speaker, speaking selves, and fluid selves -- 3.1 Speaker, speaking selves, and partner -- 3.2 The myth of the ideal and autonomous speaker -- 3.3 Divided selves, "dividuals," and fluid selves -- Chapter 3. Character and character-speak -- 1. Character in the West and in Japan -- 1.1 Emergence of the character in the West -- 1.2 The character phenomenon in contemporary Japan -- 2. Character in Japanese popular culture criticism -- 3. Concepts of character and characteristic -- 3.1 Defining character and characteristic -- 3.2 Psychology of Japan's character culture -- 4. Character-speak: Background -- 4.1 Beyond Bakhtin: Heteroglossia, polyphony, and the character zone in popular culture -- 4.2 Borrowed style as precursor to character-speak -- 5. Character-speak: Manipulating characters and characteristics -- 5.1 Character-speak and expressive meanings -- 5.2 Character-speak and aspects of indexical signs -- 5.3 Manipulating characters and characteristics -- 6. Character-speak in context -- 6.1 Character-speak and performance.

6.2 Other approaches: Role language and utterance character -- Chapter 4. Light novels Character-speak and variation in quoted speech -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Defining light novels -- 1.2 Crossover and mixed genres -- 2. Background: Quoted speech in novels and light novels -- 2.1 Quoted speech in novels -- 2.2 Simulating orality in quoted speech -- 3. Quoted speech features in light novels -- 3.1 Youth language -- 3.2 Self-performed sound effects -- 4. Creating characters through quoted speech -- 4.1 Character-speak and fictional variations -- 4.2 Character-differentiating quoted speech in Kino no Tabi -- 5. Fluid orality and characteristics -- 5.1 Fluidity of old-man language and archaic styles -- 5.2 Fictionalized dialects and temporary characteristics -- 5.3 Shiftng styles in quoted speech and characteristics -- 6. Tsundere and conversational moves -- 6.1 Tsundere character: Features and language -- 6.2 Tsundere conversational moves in the Suzumya Haruhi series -- 6.3 Particle yo and tsundere attitude -- 7. Reflections -- Chapter 5. Talk shows Fluid orality in gender-evoking variation -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Matsuko Derakkusu and media presence -- 1.2 Masaharu Fukuyama and radio talk shows -- 2. Background: Onee kotoba, gender, and language -- 2.1 Beyond gendered and ideologized language -- 2.2 Onee kotoba as a gender-evoking indexical sign -- 2.3 Consumption of onee culture and onee character-speak in postmodern Japan -- 3. Marketing the onee character: Matsuko Derakkusu -- 3.1 Features of Matsuko's onee character-speak -- 3.2 Criticizing, ordering, and self-deprecating -- 3.3 Conversation management, audience involvement, and media savvy -- 3.4 Fluidity of gender-evoking character-speak -- 4. Fluid orality in playful voices: Masako, the Housewife -- 4.1 Character presentation in Fukuyama Masaharu no SUZUKI Talking FM.

4.2 Masako's character-speak and emotional expressions -- 4.3 Giving advice in Masako's voice -- 4.4 Grousing and scolding -- 4.5 Fluid transitions: Masako, Masaharu, and Fukuyama -- 5. Reflections -- Chapter 6. Keetai novels: Narrator's character-speak in conversational narration -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Defining keetai novels -- 1.2 Keetai novel as genre and culture -- 1.3 Keetai novel as self-narrative and its readership -- 2. Background: Novelistic discourse -- 2.1 Approaches to the novel -- 2.2 I-novel and keetai novel -- 3. Language of narration in keetai novels -- 3.1 Overview -- 3.2 Conversational narration -- 3.3 Fragmentation of speech -- 3.4 Appealing to the reader -- 4. Character-speak in self-narrative -- 4.1 Self-awareness and narrator's character -- 4.2 Narrator as tsukkomi character -- 4.3 Internal conversation: Mediating quoted speech and narration -- 5. Fluid orality through variation and rhetoric -- 5.1 Yankii language and narrator's character -- 5.2 Fluid style shifts and narrator's characteristics -- 5.3 Narrator's performance through irony, punning, and mojiri -- 6. Reflections -- Chapter 7. Manga: Fluidity of multilayered speech in floating whispers -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Japanese manga and girls' manga -- 1.2 NANA and Yamatonadeshiko Shichihenge -- 2. Background: Internal monologue and visual signs in manga and girls' manga -- 2.1 Speech balloons and thought bubbles -- 2.2 Internal monologue in girls' manga -- 2.3 Multimodal approaches to manga -- 3. Fluid orality and polyphony in manga -- 3.1 Internal monologue in Hotto Roodo -- 3.2 Multilayered voices in Ribaazu Ejji -- 4. Floating whispers in NANA and Yamatonadeshiko Shichihenge -- 4.1 Floating whispers: Definition and function -- 4.2 Floating whispers and visual context -- 5. Multilayerd speech in NANA and Yamatonadeshiko Shichihenge.

5.1 Multilayered internal monologue -- 5.2 Unspoken conversation -- 5.3 Narrative voice and inter-genre expressivity in floating whispers -- 6. Character-speak and fluid orality in floating whispers -- 6.1 Characters of Nana Komatsu and Nana Oosaki -- 6.2 Contrasting Kyoohei with others -- 6.3 Sunako's character-speak and visual context -- 7. Reflections -- Chapter 8. Drama: Fluid orality in place-evoking fictionalized variations -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Dialect as a place-evoking variation -- 1.2 Hanako to An and character identification -- 1.3 Ama-chan: An overview -- 1.4 Ama-chan: The story -- 2. Background: Fictional dialect and temporary style -- 2.1 Production of the fictional Sodegahama dialect -- 2.2 Fictional variation, character, and characteristic -- 3. Fluid orality in Ama-chan: Use and non-use of the Sodegahama dialect -- 3.1 From dialect to standard speech -- 3.2 Dialect awareness and meta-comment -- 4. Character-speak of major participants in the drama -- 4.1 Aki's character and her adventure in fictionalized variation -- 4.2 Yui's character-speak and identity struggle -- 4.3 Haruko's life journey and adopted variations -- 5. Narrators' character-speak and polyphony -- 5.1 Natsu and polyphonic narrative style -- 5.2 Narrative voices: Contrasting Haruko and Aki -- 5.3 Addressing audience and the narrator's character -- 6. Reflections -- Chapter 9. Reflections and aspirations -- 1. Fluidity of characters and fluidity of speaking selves -- 2. Toward pragmatic and discourse studies of speaking selves -- Appendix: Presentation of data in Japanese orthography -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- References -- Data references -- Light novels -- Talk shows -- Keetai novels -- Manga -- Television drama -- Others -- Author index -- Subject index.

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