Masako K. Hiraga
List of John Benjamins publications in which Masako K. Hiraga is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1879-8047
Titles
Iconicity: East meets West
Edited by Masako K. Hiraga, William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara and Kimi Akita
Iconicity: East Meets West presents an intersection of East-West scholarship on Iconicity. Several of its chapters thus deal with Asian languages and cultures, or a comparison of world languages. Divided into four categories: general issues; sound symbolism and mimetics; iconicity in literary… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 14] 2015. x, 279 pp.
Cultural, Psychological and Typological Issues in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995
Edited by Masako K. Hiraga, Chris Sinha and Sherman Wilcox
Cognitive linguistics is nothing if not an interdisciplinary and comparative enterprise. This collection addresses both the implications OF and the implications FOR cognitive linguistics of psycholinguistic, computational, neuroscientific, cross-cultural and cross-linguistic research.read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 152] 1999. vii, 338 pp.
2015 Introduction: Ubiquity of Iconicity - East Meets West Iconicity: East meets West, Hiraga, Masako K., William J. Herlofsky, Kazuko Shinohara and Kimi Akita (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Article
2013 The Bashō code: Metaphor and diagram in two haiku about silence Iconic Investigations, Elleström, Lars, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 25–42 | Article
“Haiku shows us what we knew all the time, but did not know we knew;
it shows us that we are poets in so far as we live at all.
”
R. H. Blyth in Haiku (1952)This paper looks at the rhetorical structure of the two haiku texts by Bashō, which display formal and semantic similarities. After giving a… read more
2011 Inner and outer body parts: The case of hara ‘belly’ and koshi ‘lower back’ in Japanese Embodiment via Body Parts: Studies from various languages and cultures, Maalej, Zouhair and Ning Yu (eds.), pp. 149–170 | Article
The aim of this chapter is to consider the relationship between the outer and inner body as sources of motivation for metonymy and metaphor. We base our discussion on examples of Japanese expressions that use outer and inner areas of the body centered around the abdominal region: hara ‘belly’ and… read more
2008 Tao of learning: Metaphors Japanese students live by Metaphors for Learning: Cross-cultural Perspectives, Berendt, Erich A. (ed.), pp. 55–72 | Article
2003 How metaphor and iconicity are entwined in poetry: A case in haiku From Sign to Signing, Müller, Wolfgang G. and Olga Fischer, pp. 317–335 | Article
1999 DEFERENCE as DISTANCE: Metaphorical base of honorific verb construction in Japanese Cultural, Psychological and Typological Issues in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995, Hiraga, Masako K., Chris Sinha and Sherman Wilcox (eds.), pp. 47–68 | Article
1999 Introduction Cultural, Psychological and Typological Issues in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers of the bi-annual ICLA meeting in Albuquerque, July 1995, Hiraga, Masako K., Chris Sinha and Sherman Wilcox (eds.), pp. 1–8 | Miscellaneous