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HiroshimaThe liveliest city in Japan
• Thought On arrival:– A lump in my throat– A lot of sad thought– A far greater adventure than
reportorial assignment – The scene of the crime
• Sense of guiltiness
• Expectation by preconceived idea
• Description of routine city:– Girls / ladies in kimonos robbed shoulders…– Serious looking Men exchanged the routine gr
eeting…– Taxi drivers rushed for their living…
Beyond what he had expected…
• Taxi driver’s attitude to tourists
• Usher’s warm reception
• Sharp contrast and odd combination of modern and tradition (kimono VS miniskirt)
• Twinge embarrassment of meeting mayor in my socks
– Strange emotion came back again: sense of guiltiness- standing on the site of the first atomic bombardment
Discourse analysis: --- cooperative principles or cognitive inference?
Context Status/identityShared knowledge
Expectation / inference
speaker Mayor of the city Gov. Official Info-sender
audience Western journalists World war components
Info-receiver
scene Restaurant boat Reception/ Entertainment
Formal, but friendly
topic Intro-Hiroshima
Sea food: oysters
Atomic bomb
Peace & war
Anti-nuclear
Japan, America, atomic bomb, war, peace, death, misery and humanity’s most heinous crime
Conversation principles: Informative? Sincerity? Quantitive? Effective?
Discourse analysis: --- cooperative principles or cognitive inference?
Context Status/identityShared knowledge
Expectation / inference
speaker Mayor of the city Gov. Official Info-sender
audience Western journalists World war components
Info-receiver
scene Restaurant boat Reception/ Entertainment
Formal, but friendly
topic Intro-Hiroshima
Sea food: oysters
Atomic bomb
Peace & war
Anti-nuclear
Japan, America, atomic bomb, war, peace, death, misery and humanity’s most heinous crime
Conversation principles: Informative? Sincerity? Quantitive? Effective?
Discourse analysis: --- cooperative principles or cognitive inference?
Context Status/identityShared knowledge
Expectation / inference
speaker Mayor of the city Gov. Official Info-sender
audience Western journalists World war components
Info-receiver
scene Restaurant boat Reception/ Entertainment
Formal, but friendly
topic Intro-Hiroshima
Sea food: oysters
Atomic bomb
Peace & war
Anti-nuclear
Japan, America, atomic bomb, war, peace, death, misery and humanity’s most heinous crime
Conversation principles: Informative? Sincerity? Quantitive? Effective?
Discourse analysis: --- cooperative principles or cognitive inference?
Context Status/identityShared knowledge
Expectation / inference
speaker Mayor of the city Gov. Official Info-sender
audience Western journalists World war components
Info-receiver
scene Restaurant boat Reception/ Entertainment
Formal, but friendly
topic Intro-Hiroshima
Sea food: oysters
Atomic bomb
Peace & war
Anti-nuclear
Japan, America, atomic bomb, war, peace, death, misery and humanity’s most heinous crime
Conversation principles: Informative? Sincerity? Quantitive? Effective?
Discourse analysis: --- cooperative principles or cognitive inference?
Context Status/identityShared knowledge
Expectation / inference
speaker Mayor of the city Gov. Official Info-sender
audience Western journalists World war components
Info-receiver
scene Restaurant boat Reception/ Entertainment
Formal, but friendly
topic Intro-Hiroshima
Sea food: oysters
Atomic bomb
Peace & war
Anti-nuclear
Japan, America, atomic bomb, war, peace, death, misery and humanity’s most heinous crime
Conversation principles: Informative? Sincerity? Quantitive? Effective?
Discourse analysis: --- cooperative principles or cognitive inference?
Context Status/identityShared knowledge
Expectation / inference
speaker Mayor of the city Gov. Official Info-sender
audience Western journalists World war components
Info-receiver
scene Restaurant boat Reception/ Entertainment
Formal, but friendly
topic Intro-Hiroshima
Sea food: oysters
Atomic bomb
Peace & war
Anti-nuclear
Japan, America, atomic bomb, war, peace, death, misery and humanity’s most heinous crime
Conversation principles: Informative? Sincerity? Quantitive? Effective?
Discourse analysis: --- cooperative principles or cognitive inference?
Context Status/identityShared knowledge
Expectation / inference
speaker Mayor of the city Gov. Official Info-sender
audience Western journalists World war components
Info-receiver
scene Restaurant boat Reception/ Entertainment
Formal, but friendly
topic Intro-Hiroshima
Sea food: oysters
Atomic bomb
Peace & war
Anti-nuclear
Japan, America, atomic bomb, war, peace, death, misery and humanity’s most heinous crime
Conversation principles: Informative? Sincerity? Quantitive? Effective?
Discourse analysis: --- cooperative principles or cognitive inference?
Context Status/identityShared knowledge
Expectation / inference
speaker Mayor of the city Gov. Official Info-sender
audience Western journalists World war components
Info-receiver
scene Restaurant boat Reception/ Entertainment
Formal, but friendly
topic
Intro-Hiroshima
Sea food: oysters
Atomic bomb
Peace & war
Anti-nuclear
Japan, America, atomic bomb, war, peace, death, misery and humanity’s most heinous crime
Conversation principles: Informative? Sincerity? Quantitive? Effective?
“Gentlemen, I am happy to welcome you to Hiroshima.” - everyone bows“Gentlemen, it is very great honor to have you here in Hiroshima.” - fresh bows“Hiroshima, as you know, is a city familiar to everyone,” - more and more agitated“Seldom has a city gained such world renown, and I am proud and happy to welcome you to Hiroshima, a town known throughout the world for its --- oysters.” - jolting me out of my sad reverie
Discourse analysis: --- cooperative principles or cognitive inference?
Context Status/identity Shared knowledgeExpectation / inference
speaker An old Japanese man Citizen Info-sender
listener American journalist World war components
Info-receiver
scene Restaurant boat Casual talk informal, friendly
topic 1. Puzzlement by mayor’s speech
2. Impact of the atomic cataclysm
Atomic bomb
Peace & war
Anti-nuclear
Suffering of people
Japan, America, atomic bomb, war, peace, death…
Conversation principles: Effective? Informative?
Discourse analysis: --- cooperative principles or cognitive inference?
Context Status/identity Shared knowledgeExpectation / inference
speaker An old Japanese fishman
Survivor atomic bomb Info-sender
listener American journalist World war components Info-receiver
scene hospital Interview /
investigation
informal, friendly
topic
Impact of the atomic cataclysm
Atomic bomb
Peace & war
Suffering of people
Attitude to life & death
Japan, America, atomic bomb, war, peace, death…?
Conversation principles: Effective? Informative? Sincerity? Quantitive
Content of the text
• Theme (indicated)
• emotion (implicated)
• Attitude (embodied)
• Massage (implied)
Hiroshima…
1. War a
nd Peace
2. Atomic bom
bardment
3.In
tern
al te
rroris
m
4. Show concern for
Topics derived from…
World War II
Inter-nations
Roots of the War
Is it necessary
Human or inhuman
Intra-nation
Nation & inter-nation
People & human being
Ecological & global
911 attack on WTC
Nuclear, chemical, biological, cyber
State-sponsored terrorism
Terrorism & criminal activities
Gain VS lost
Why make it ?
Beyond the text…
Ourselves & others
Doves flutter over the
flame for peace before
the gutted A-bomb dome
at a ceremony
commemorating the 59th
anniversary of the
world's first atomic bomb
blast at Peace Memorial
Park in Hiroshima, Japan
August 6, 2004. [Reuters]
An elderly Japanese woman prays behind flames rising from incense for the victims of the World War Two atomic bomb blast over Hiroshima before a cenotaph at the city's Peace Memorial Park at daybreak on August 6, 2004.[Reuters]
Japanese fold their hands in
prayer in front of a cenotaph
for the atomic bomb victims
at Peace Memorial Park in Hi
roshima, Japan August 6, 20
04. [Reuters]
Demonstrators wearing hats that say 'peace' stage a die-in in front of the gutted A-bomb dome in Hiroshima, Japan August 6, 2004 on the hour at which the atomic bomb was dropped over the Japanese city on August 6, 1945. [Reuters]
Japanese Buddhist monks chant peace slogans as they make their way through Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park on the 59th anniversary of the atomic bomb, August 6, 2004. [Reuters]
Can student talk about international current affairs?
• Koizumi visits Yasukuni shrine for the 5th time
Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi paid his respects at Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine for war dead today which is the anniversary of Japanese World War Two surrender. It’s the first time by a Japanese prime minister on the August 15 anniversary since Yasuhiro Nakasone paid his respects there on the emotive date in 1985.
Perhaps Koizumi don’t care what Chinese and Korean think about him, but clearly he has become a evil in the heart of most Chinese no matter what reason he explained.
[ Last edited by chinadaily at 2006-8-18 04:20 PM ]
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• Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi lays a wreath during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the atomic bombing in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan August 9, 2006. (NO SALES NO ARCHIVE REUTERS/Kyodo)
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