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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., c1999

1 online resource (xvi, 278 p.)

ISBN 1556199325 (alk. paper)

Studies in language companion series, ISSN 0165-7763 ; v. 46

Includes bibliographical references and index

Ch. 1. What is ’Animacy’? -- Ch. 2. What Does Animacy Do to Human Language? -- Ch. 3. Hierarchy of Persons and Animacy in English and Japanese -- Ch. 4. Degree of Individuation and Encoding of Animacy -- Ch. 5. Agency and Animacy -- Ch. 6. A Neverending Story of Animacy -- Appendix. Lists of Human/Animate Noun Phrases in Corpus. Case Study 1. Yukio Mishima, Hyaku-man Yen Senbei (’One Million Yen Rice Cracker’ or ’Three Million Yen’). Case Study 2. Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express. Case Study 3. Asahi Shinbun and Asahi Evening News. Case Study 4. Newsweek. Case Study 5. The Transactions of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers and Systems and Computers in Japan. Case Study 6. Scientific American. Case Study 7. ’Tetsuko no Heya’. Case Study 8. Viewpoints.

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