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Fall 2015
This thesis investigates the interactional functions of yinwei-clauses in Mandarin conversation. Adopting the methodology of Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics, the present study explores the function of yinwei-clause in 11 hours of everyday Mandarin conversational data....
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The Influence of Bookshop Printing on the Creation of the Sequels to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms
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In the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1912) dynasties of China, there was a close relationship between the printing industry and the creation of novels. The commercialization of novels, free from strict cultural policies, began in about 1522, the first Jiajing year of the Ming dynasty. This...
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Fall 2021
The history of Buddhism cannot be understood solely in terms of theological or philosophical development; one must also attend to the social, cultural, and political changes that inevitably shaped and re-shaped the religion, its adherents, and its practices as it journeyed throughout Asia and...
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The Collection of Dongpo's Joy of Chan: Su Shi's Buddhist Writings and Their Resonances in the Late Ming
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This thesis investigates the text and context of The Collection of Dongpo’s Joy of Chan (Dongpo chanxi ji 東坡禪喜集), a collection compiled in the late Ming 明 (1368-1644) in two editions that mainly contains Buddhist writings of Su Shi 蘇軾 (1037-1101). Su Shi was one of the most prominent poets and...
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Fall 2018
The two kinds of Japanese adjectives, i-adjectives and na-adjectives, along with nouns, employ different forms (-i, -na, and no) to modify a noun. Based on such patterns, along with other grammatical characteristics identified in constructed examples, boundaries between lexical categories have...
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Style shifting in Japanese native/non-native conversation: an in depth analysis of short/long form usage
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There are two distinct styles of predicates in Japanese: the long form and the short form. The former is associated with politeness/formality, while the latter is reserved for more intimate social settings. It is expected that when the relationship of the speakers and the setting remains the...
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Songzi Guanyin and Koyasu Kannon: Revisiting the Feminization of Avalokiteśvara in China and Japan
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Avalokiteśvara, initially imagined as a male deity in India, began to transition into a female deity during the early period of the Song dynasty (960-1279) in China. Guanyin 觀音, Avalokiteśvara’s name in Chinese, received great popularity as the “Goddess of Mercy” in China. Influenced by both...
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Recipient response behaviour during Japanese storytelling: a combined quantitative/multimodal approach
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This study explores the role of speaker and listener gaze in the production of recipient responses, often called backchannels or, in Japanese, aizuchi. Using elicited narrative audio/video data, speaker gaze and recipient response behaviours were first analyzed quantitatively. The results showed...
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Fall 2022
The Japanese language involves several quotative particles (similar to that in He said that … in English). Among these particles, two particles to and tte the most frequent ones. Previous studies have described that formality of conversation distinguishes these two particles (to is used in...