Japanese Morphography: Deconstructing Hentai Kanbun
Japanese Morphography: Deconstructing Hentai Kanbun (Language, Writing and Literary Culture in the Sinographic Cosmopolis, 4) by Gordian Schreiber
2023 | ISBN: 9004503897 | English | 284 pages | PDF | 10.7 MB
2023 | ISBN: 9004503897 | English | 284 pages | PDF | 10.7 MB
In Japanese Morphography, Gordian Schreiber takes an in-depth look at texts from pre-modern Japan written exclusively in Chinese characters as morphograms and demonstrates why the language behind the script is, in fact, to be identified as Japanese rather than Chinese.