"This book is a cross-linguistic and interdisciplinary exploration of modality within systemic functional linguistics (SFL). Drawing upon the broad SFL notion of modality that refers to the intermediate degrees between the positive and negative poles, the individual papers probe into the modality systems in English and Japanese. The papers cover issues such as the conceptual nature of modality in both languages, the characterization of modulation in Japanese, the trans-grammatical aspects of modality in relation to mood and grammatical metaphor in both languages, and the modality uses and pragmatic impairment by individuals with a developmental disorder from a neurocognitive perspective. The book demonstrates a functional account of Japanese within an SFL model of language with a fresh perspective to Japanese linguistics. It also refers to cross-linguistic issues concerning how the principles and theories of SFL serve to empirically elaborate descriptions of individual languages, which will lead to the enrichment of the theory and practice of linguistics and beyond."--.

• Japanese Mood and Modality in Systemic Functional Linguistics
• Volume 26 of the Series of the Ryukoku University Research Institute for International Society and Culture.
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Chapter 1. Introduction
  • References
• Chapter 2. The system of modulation in Japanese
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Previous studies on modality
    • 2.1 Mood and modality
    • 2.2 Brief overview of Japanese mood and modality
  • 3. Japanese modality within the SFL framework
    • 3.1 Criteria for defining modality in Japanese
    • 3.2 The scope of modality in SFL
    • 3.3 The semantic domain of modality
    • 3.4 Modes of expressions in modulation in Japanese
    • 3.5 Summary
  • 4. Modulation
    • 4.1 Descriptive framework of modulation
    • 4.2 The concept of modulation
    • 4.3 The systems of SUBJECT PRESUMPTION and SUBJECT PERSON
    • 4.4 Obligation
    • 4.5 Inclination
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Funding
  • References
  • Appendix 1. Systemic conventions (Teruya 2007: xxv)
  • Appendix 2. MODULATION and other relevant systems in the system network of MOOD in Japanese
  • Appendix 2. MODULATION and other relevant systems in the system network of MOOD in Japanese
• Chapter 3. Grammatical metaphor of Transitivity, Mood and Modality in Japanese: A functional perspective
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Ideational metaphor and the distinction between congruency and metaphoricity
    • 2.1 Basic concepts
    • 2.2 What is congruent to what?
    • 2.3 From meaning to lexico-grammatical form
    • 2.4 Congruency and its cross-lingual applicability
    • 2.5 The distinction between naturalness and congruency
    • 2.6 Nominalisation and ideational metaphor
    • 2.7 Summary about ideational metaphor
  • 3. Interpersonal metaphors in Japanese
    • 3.1 Mood in English
    • 3.2 Mood in Japanese
    • 3.3 The whole system of the Japanese Mood
    • 3.4 Mood metaphor in Japanese
    • 3.5 Strengthening and softening effects of Mood metaphors
  • 4. Modality metaphor
    • 4.1 English modality as viewed from SFL
    • 4.2 Modality system in Japanese
    • 4.3 Metaphor of Modality: A contrast between English and Japanese
    • 4.4 Summary of the metaphors of Mood and Modality
  • 5. Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • References
• Chapter 4. A contrastive study of the English and the Japanese modality systems
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Syntactic negation and semantic negation
  • 3. Modality in English
    • 3.1 Definitions of modality
    • 3.2 Modalization and modulation within the framework of SFL
  • 4. Modality in Japanese
    • 4.1 Subcategories of modalization and modulation
    • 4.2 Positive – negative pairs
  • 5. Comparison and conclusion
  • References
• Chapter 5. The cognitive and linguistic reasoning process of the speaker’s choice of modal expressions from the system network: Modality from the perspective of pragmatic impairment
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Theoretical framework of SFL
    • 2.1 Synoptic view of the text defined in SFL
    • 2.2 Language as system network
    • 2.3 Theoretical framework of modality in SFL constructs
    • 2.4 Grammatical metaphor / metaphorical realization
    • 2.5 Orientation
  • 3. General picture of ASD from the neurological perspective
  • 4. Method
    • 4.1 Corpus data and materials
    • 4.2 Procedure
  • 5. Results
  • 6. Discussion
    • 6.1 Theory of Mind (ToM)
    • 6.2 Executive function (EF)
    • 6.3 Central coherence (CC)
    • 6.4 Preference for expectation and inclination
  • 7. The process leading to pragmatic impairment
    • Procedure 1: Consideration of contexts of culture and situation
    • Procedure 2: Text-making processes in semantics, choices of lexicogrammar, and actual utterances
  • 8. Determinant factor of making choices
  • 9. Conclusion
  • Funding
  • References
• Index