Solitude Speech across Languages and Cultures
Special issue of the International Journal of Language and Culture 12:1 (2025)
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[International Journal of Language and Culture, 12:1] 2025. v, 208 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 5 February 2026
Published online on 5 February 2026
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Table of Contents
- Introduction: Solitude speech across languages and culturesMitsuko Narita Izutsu & Katsunobu Izutsu | pp. 1–19
- Speaking while thinking: How dialogic is Japanese solitude speech?Mitsuko Narita Izutsu & Katsunobu Izutsu | pp. 20–54
- Self-addressed solitude speech: A cross-linguistic perspectiveTakeshi Koguma & Katsunobu Izutsu | pp. 55–88
- Self-quotations of solitude speech in online Estonian, Finnish, and HungarianDenys Teptiuk | pp. 89–117
- When to prefer split-self conceptions: Self-reference in solitude speech in Ainu, English, Japanese, and KoreanKatsunobu Izutsu, Takeshi Koguma & Mitsuko Narita Izutsu | pp. 118–154
- Dramatized internal dialogue in a comedy by Shakespeare: Solitude speech as a socio-cultural, cognitive, and communicative deviceLei Huang, Esther Pascual & Todd Oakley | pp. 155–182
- Displayed monologues: Aboriginal avoidance language as a codified pretense of solitude speechStef Spronck | pp. 183–208
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