Japanese Language and Literature publishes contributions in the areas of Japanese literary studies, Japanese linguistics, and Japanese language and literature pedagogy, as well as articles from other ...

What is language, why do we use it, and how did it evolve? These are questions that language researchers are still working to answer. From a basic standpoint, a language is a shared system of symbols ...

Michiko Kaneyasu received her Ph.D. in Japanese linguistics in 2012 from the University of California at Los Angeles. Her research interests include formulaic language, discourse and grammar, corpus ...

The very first time that I was ever “appreciated” in the elliptical idiom or grammar of Nigerian christian religiosity, it was with a bag of rice. The “appreciator” was a pastor, a man of the cloth.