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Studies in Language and Culture (Nagoya University, …, 2001
very difficulty I faced in deciding how to describe the activity in which the Japanese are engage... more very difficulty I faced in deciding how to describe the activity in which the Japanese are engaged, where 'whaling' and 'research' are both, ideologically, highlyloaded terms. However, I would like to emphasize that my intention in using these two texts is not to engage in 'Japan-bashing'. I shall not be trying to prove that Japanese whaling is wrong, and I shall not be judging between these two texts regarding which side is telling the truth. Rather, my aim is to show how a linguistically-oriented and theoretically-informed close-reading of environmental texts such as these can help us understand not just what they mean, but how they mean. However, understanding how a text comes to mean what it does is only the first level of analysis. The second level is the evaluation of how effective the text is at achieving its purpose, which involves relating features of text to features of the context of situation and culture.
Studies in Language and Culture (Nagoya University, …, 2001
very difficulty I faced in deciding how to describe the activity in which the Japanese are engage... more very difficulty I faced in deciding how to describe the activity in which the Japanese are engaged, where 'whaling' and 'research' are both, ideologically, highlyloaded terms. However, I would like to emphasize that my intention in using these two texts is not to engage in 'Japan-bashing'. I shall not be trying to prove that Japanese whaling is wrong, and I shall not be judging between these two texts regarding which side is telling the truth. Rather, my aim is to show how a linguistically-oriented and theoretically-informed close-reading of environmental texts such as these can help us understand not just what they mean, but how they mean. However, understanding how a text comes to mean what it does is only the first level of analysis. The second level is the evaluation of how effective the text is at achieving its purpose, which involves relating features of text to features of the context of situation and culture.