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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