The Ainu language
The Ainu language
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阿伊努语
DOI:
10.2307/2056937
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发表时间:
1987
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影响因子:
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通讯作者:
K. Refsing
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作者:
G. T. Bowles;K. Refsing
his fracture of meaning as the gap between native Japanese content and Chinese or Sino-Japanese form. No one would deny that there are enormous problems inherent in the accommodation of the Chinese writing system (and the thought it contains) to the Japanese language, but those are problems of a practical nature (How do we accurately express the sounds of Japanese using kanji? How do we indicate verbal and adjectival inflections? How many loan words can we digest, and how quickly?). Practicable, sometimes ingenious solutions to these problems have been found by the Japanese (and Koreans) over the centuries. There is, however, a much more fundamental and troubling fracture of meaning between reality and the way we express our engagement with it in language, and that problem transcends national and historical borders. Whether one agrees with Derrida's analysis of the problem or not, it is important to realize that it is a universal problem, not something that the Japanese face uniquely because of their historical intellectual dependence on China. Given Pollack's admirable curiosity about contemporary critical theory and his considerable talents with practical criticism and translation, we can expect that his next effort to deal with the problem of language in Japanese letters will be as exacting and persuasive as it is provocative.