Learning Japanese for Real: A Guide to Grammar, Use, and Genres of the Nihongo World 9780824861056

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Learning Japanese for Real: A Guide to Grammar, Use, and Genres of the Nihongo World
 9780824861056

Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Part I. Preliminaries
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Background
Chapter 3 Variation and Change in Nihongo
Part II. Sounds and Scripts
Chapter 4 The Nihongo Sound System
Chapter 5 Scripts
Part III. Words
Chapter 6 Kinds of Words
Chapter 7 Words in Grammar
Part IV Grammar
Chapter 8 Simple Sentences–Essential
Chapter 9 Simple Sentences–Enhanced
Chapter 10 Complex Sentences
Chapter 11 Emotive Expressions
Part V. Use
Chapter 12 Interaction Strategies
Chapter 13 Conversation Management
Chapter 14 Gestures and Signals
Chapter 15 Rhetorical Figures of Speech
Chapter 16 Discourse Organization
Part VI. Genres
Chapter 17 Genre Appreciation
Chapter 18 Selected Popular Culture Genres
Part VII. Learning Nihongo
Chapter 19 Methods
Chapter 20 Tools and Resources
Appendixes
List of Author’s Works
Subject Index (English)
Subject Index and Key Phrases (Japanese)
About the Author

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