Scripting Japan: Orthography, Variation, and the Creation of Meaning in Written Japanese - Paperback

by Wesley C. Robertson (Author)

This monograph provides the first investigation into the ways these authors and their readers engage with script variation as a social language practice, looking at how purely script-based language choices influence the ultimate meaning created by language acts.

Author Biography

Wesley C. Robertson is Lecturer in International Studies at Macquarie University, Australia. His research focuses on variation and language play inherent in writing, with a focus on Japanese. He completed his PhD in Applied Japanese Linguistics at Monash University in 2016.