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Hopmans, Sebastiaan (2019)

The position of anime title abbreviations within prosodic theory

Bachelor thesis | Japanstudies (BA)

This thesis further explores the concept of prosodic minimums, as laid out by Itou et al., by accounting for anime title abbreviations within the established theory. Research performed led to the preliminary conclusion that the majority of anime title abbreviations adhered to the established prosodic minimums, although in a small set of instances they did not. To account for this, an interdisciplinary approach was taken by involving theories surrounding brand linguistics and sound-associative vocabulary (such as onomatopoeia), which led to speculative findings aptly suited for future research.

abbreviation

prosody

branding

onomatopoeia

anime

Author

Hopmans, Sebastiaan

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Japanstudies

Supervisors

Yoshioka, Keiko

ECTS Credits

10

Language

en