Anti-"Japanese Language Theory"

Author: Yasuhiko Renjaku
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: This series of books primarily focuses on two centers of selection. First, the selections are concentrated on recent developments in foreign academic circles, striving to highlight the new trends and hot issues in foreign academia since the 1990s. Second, it does not neglect to fill in the gaps, including important foreign academic works that have not yet been translated into Chinese. This book starts from the surface of daily life, from the ordinary, and through personal experiences of the author and their family, it delivers a sharp critique of the then-popular cultural trend in Japan known as "Japanese language theory." In the process of critique, it unfolds unique and profound cutting-edge linguistic theories and social theories, fundamentally subverting the values of what constitutes the beauty of language, as well as what constitutes systems and knowledge. This book was awarded the Japan Yomurika Literary Prize and is a must-read classic in the fields of humanities and social sciences.