[This presentation scheduled earlier for January had to be moved here due to unforeseen circumstances on that date. ]
It is a common knowledge that haiku poem with 5-7-5 syllabic structure makes good use of rhetoric including simile, metaphor, personification, allegory, synecdoche, metonymy, allusion, and the like. This talk demonstrates how haiku poets intentionally or unintentionally use or exploit rhetoric in their haiku to express what they experience in the real world whenever they believe that literal compositions of haiku without rhetoric are inadequate. The mechanism of poetic acts of rhetoric will be explained with foregrounding and backgrounding in the theory of Regulation Augmented Speech Act Theory. This talk will help you understand how Japanese students verbalize the world around them in your teaching in Japan.
Further reading: Daniel Vanderveken and Susumu Kubo (eds.) 2001. Essays in Speech Act Theory. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Susumu Kubo 2003. Direction of regulation in speech act theory, In K.M. Jaszczolt and Ken Turner (eds.) Meaning Through Language Contrast Vol.2. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Bio: Former Vice President of Pragmatics Society of Japan.
A Former member of Consulting Committee of Current Research in Semantics/Pragmatics Interface Series, Elsevier Science.
MA., Graduate School at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies in 1975.
Ph.D., Graduate School at Kansai Gaidai University in 2012.
Endorsements: Matsuyama City; Matsuyama City Board of Education （後援: 松山市、松山市教育委員会）
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