This volume contains papers read (with a few exceptions)
during the 9th Conference of the European Association for Japanese
Studies which took place from 23 to 26 August 2000 in Lahti (Finland).
Opening the EAJS conferences to the modern style of organisation using
the system of call for papers, it became clear that Europe was no more
only an “old continent” as a significant number of people took the time
and trouble to attend the meeting.
The papers are divided into three sections: (1) Cognitive
Approaches, (2) Interpersonal Relations, Social Aspects and Politeness,
(3) Phonology, Syntax, Semantics and In-between. In each section, the
papers are arranged in alphabetic order according to the authors. We
are very pleased to be able to publish papers of distinguished scholars
from Japan, among them the Professors Yoshihiko IKEGAMI, Seiichi
MAKINO, Jiri V. NEUSTUPNÝ and Zendo UWANO.
Our thanks are due to the Japan Foundation. Special
thanks go to Professor Yoshihiko Ikegami for his advice on editorial
matters. Our thanks also go to Dr Martina Ebi who helped us in the
preparation of this volume. We hope that this book will, like the
conference, help to forge additional links between the members of the
growing network of specialists of Japanese Linguistics from Europe and
other countries in the world.
As for the transcription of the Japanese data and
reference books the Hepburn-system was used unless the phonological
approach of an author’s research was committed to other conventions.
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