An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese Workbook
- 149 pages
- 6 hours of reading
This is the workbook that accompanies the "An integrated approach to intermediate Japanese" text and audio files.
Akira Miura Books
Akira Miura is emeritus professor of Japanese at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he taught all levels of Japanese as well as Japanese pedagogy for more than thirty years. A native of Tokyo and a graduate of the University of Tokyo, he received his Ed.D. from Columbia University. He is also the author of English Loanwords in Japanese, An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese, Problematic English Words Written in Katakana, Japanese Cultural Episodes for Speed Reading, and Let's Get to Know Japan! His translations include Sakae Tsuboi’s Twenty-four Eyes and Takeo Suzuki’s Words in Context.
Observing the nuances of language, Shunji Suzuki contends, is more complicated than simply cataloging speech patterns. Language includes a set of unconscious expectations that communicate much, much more.Words in Context is an exploration of the intimate relationship between language and lifestyle, psychology, and culture. Suzuki convincingly illustrates the dangers of isolating words from their cultural context, and focuses on the types of misperceptions that result from such widely held practices.Citing examples from Japanese and other languages, he demonstrates how words carry nuanced cultural baggage and must be considered in the broader context of culture, history, and social mores to fully appreciate their potency.