Agency and impersonality : their linguistic and cultural manifestations /

Agency and impersonality : their linguistic and cultural manifestations /

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Author / Creator:	Yamamoto, Mutsumi, 1942-
Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2006.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 151 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 78 Studies in language companion series ; v. 78.
Subject:	Grammar, Comparative and general -- Agent nouns. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Animacy. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Subjectless constructions. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Agent nouns. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Animacy. Grammar, Comparative and general -- Subjectless constructions.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11212842

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ISBN:	9027230889 9789027230881 9789027293282 9027293287 1282155407 9781282155404 9786612155406 661215540X
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Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-144) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	In this monograph the author probes the fundamental nature of the concept of agency and its importance to human language and cognition. Whereas previous studies focused on grammatical manifestations this original work addresses such issues as the strong relationship between agency and responsibility, a philosophical interpretation of the concept of agency and a variety of epistemic attitudes towards agency that strongly influence our view of the world. Different cultures and languages process and express agency differently. To illustrate the co-relation between the linguistic expressions of ag.
Other form:	Print version: Yamamoto, Mutsumi, 1942- Agency and impersonality. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2006

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Summary:	In this monograph the author probes the fundamental nature of the concept of agency and its importance to human language and cognition. Whereas previous studies focused on grammatical manifestations this original work addresses such issues as the strong relationship between agency and responsibility, a philosophical interpretation of the concept of agency and a variety of epistemic attitudes towards agency that strongly influence our view of the world. Different cultures and languages process and express agency differently. To illustrate the co-relation between the linguistic expressions of agency and cultural stereotypes that lurk behind individual natural languages, the author analyses Japanese and English parallel corpora. It is shown that English tends to highlight agency in expressing actions and events, whereas Japanese largely obfuscates agency through impersonalising potential agents. Through the case studies on these languages this book sheds light on the close connection between language, thought and culture and contributes to the resurging interest in linguistic relativity.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (viii, 151 pages) : illustrations
Format:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-144) and index.
ISBN:	9027230889 9789027230881 9789027293282 9027293287 1282155407 9781282155404 9786612155406 661215540X
ISSN:	0165-7763 ;