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Konbini as Microcosms: How Japanese Convenience Stores Both Shape and Are Shaped by Their Society
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When you are starving at midnight, when you suddenly run out of toilet paper, when you have a sleepover at a friend’s house but forget to bring your toothbrush, when you are craving sweets, and even when you are just bored: convenience stores, called konbini for short in Japanese romanization,...
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Fall 2011
Karaito sōshi is a tale that falls within a genre of stories from 14th century Japan known as otogi-zōshi, or ‘companion tales’. It was included in the Edo period (1603-1867) anthology, Otogi-bunko, as an example of a late medieval Heike monogatari (13th century) reception text, and was...
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Spring 2021
San Diego, Alexandra Louise Fabian
This project examines how Orientalism has impacted the U.S. and South Korea relationship in a sociocultural context, the history of Korean and Asian people in the U.S., and how these relationships affect the creation, production, and American reception of K-pop. It posits that Orientalist...
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Spring 2017
This thesis considers translation practices, debates on language reform, and lexicography of the Meiji period (1868-1912). During this critical time in Japan’s modern history, Japan dealt with an enormous influx of Western culture and technology. Japanese scholars and intellectuals read and...
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Fall 2018
An increasing number of studies of language and interaction have reported that causal conjunctions can be used to mark something other than causal connection in conversation (Bolden 2009; Walker, 2012). Suoyi ‘so’ is a causal conjunction indicating results and conclusions in Mandarin. Previous...
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Fall 2019
This study examines the use of imperative turns in naturalistic Mandarin interaction. Imperatives in Mandarin are defined as sentences expressing a command (e.g., Chao 1968; Li & Thompson 1981; Sun 2006). Previous research has described that imperatives can be used as requests, demands,...
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Inner World of Drifting Chinese People: Narrative Functions of Motifs in Peter Ho-sun Chan’s Love Trilogy
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This thesis focuses on the narrative functions of motifs in Peter Ho-sun Chan’s love trilogy films on drifting Chinese people since the 1980s. The examination of object/setting motifs in Chapter One contributes to the understanding of character-traits. Chapter Two especially discusses the use of...