Roy Andrew Miller – författare

Build your Japanese reading skills with carefully graded lessons and authentic literary selectionsA Japanese Reader is a classic intermediate-to-advanced language resource designed to help students develop confidence reading modern written Japanese. Beginning with the fundamentals of the Japanese writing system, the lessons gradually introduce grammar, vocabulary and increasingly challenging reading passages drawn from literature, newspapers and essays.The book features authentic selections from renowned twentieth-century Japanese authors including Mishima, Akutagawa and Kawabata, alongside readings exploring Japanese history, religion, philosophy, politics and everyday life.The book features authentic selections from renowned twentieth-century Japanese authors including Mishima, Akutagawa and Kawabata, alongside readings exploring Japanese history, religion, philosophy, politics and everyday life.

The Japanese language is often under attack by linguists, translators and even amateurs for having a seemingly vague set of rules, making it near impossible to ever fully grasp all of the language’s facets. Roy Andrew Miller guides the reader through these often contradictory allegations by evaluating Japanese in the light of linguistic science. He also pays particular attention to the problems inherent in certain systems for describing the language, and to questions posed by published translations from Japanese literature.