ASIA 254 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Kana, Sapeh, Japanese Language
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By someone who understand the japanese cultures. Written with people with higher rank in mind. Influenced and borrowed from china, korea, and west (in modern time) But then how do we define japanese authors. What bout works written by japanese in japanese abroad. As a part of a larger context. Produced and consumed in a particular political and social context. Text is produced is in a text produced in earlier or about the same time. No utterance is unique, every utterance is a cliche. Text meaning is shaped by another text. Focus on the formats/genre of the text. Study the authors to try to understand the meaning of the text. More in the study of popular cultures. Study how readers from different eras interpret the text. Pay attention to the readers" race, class, gender, age, education, etc. Study how the text is shaped by the authors" expectation of the audience. Authors respond to current social and political context.
