Poetics of Living

Kuniyoshi Kataoka is Professor of English Linguistics at Aichi University, Japan. He has edited several books and published numerous refereed papers in major sociolinguistic journals.Makiko Takekuro is Professor in the School of Law at Waseda University, Japan.Takeshi Enomoto is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Humanities at Osaka University, Japan.

• Introduction: What, Why, and How of (Meta- )Discursive Poetics, Kuniyoshi Kataoka (Aichi University, Japan), Makiko Takekuro (Waseda University, Japan) and Takeshi Enomoto (The University of Osaka, Japan)Part I. Ethnopoetic Reformation1. Ethnopoetic Kata in an Insular Community in Okinawa, Makiko Takekuro (Waseda University, Japan)2. Melody of Asian Reciprocal Songs as Linguistic Communicative Infrastructure, Gaku Kajimaru (Kyoto University, Japan)3. Poetic Construction of Vertical Space, Kuniyoshi Kataoka (Aichi University, Japan) Part II. Poetic Inequalities and Beyond4. Poetic Performance in Wine- Tasting Tourism Interaction, Hiroko Takanashi (Japan Women’s University, Japan)5. An Evolutionary Approach to the Poetics of Ritual, Masataka Yamaguchi (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Japan)6. Poetic Emergence and Chronotopic Regimentation of Qualia, Takeshi Enomoto (The University of Osaka, Japan)7. Interactional Poetics in Hawaiian Media, Toshiaki Furukawa (Waseda University, Japan)8. Parallelism, Resonance, and the Pragmatic Forces of a Plea, Risako Ide (University of Tsukuba, Japan)Part III. Recapturing Poetics9. The Poetic Imperative, William O. Beeman (Emeritus, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, USA)10. Quo Vadimus?: Toward Plurimodal Poetics, Makiko Takekuro (Waseda University, Japan), Takeshi Enomoto (University of Osaka, Japan) and Kuniyoshi Kataoka (Aichi University, Japan)

Poetics of Living breathes new life into both ethnopoetics and the poetics of interaction and, ultimately, creates something intellectually rather exciting. Kuniyoshi Kataoka, Makiko Takekuro and Takeshi Enomoto have put together a book worth reading. The chapters are uniformly stimulating, and the opening and closing essays field redefining.