Thanking and Politeness in Japanese

Balancing Acts in Interaction
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-43616-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 227 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 2921 g

This book synthesizes previous work on thanking, politeness and Japanese pragmatics and crystallises the theoretical underpinnings of thanking, how it is realized linguistically and the social meaning and significance of this aspect of Japanese communication.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ohashi, J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Review of data elicitation methods 3. Revealing patterns: Descriptive empirical norms (Studies 1 and 2) 4. What Japanese native speakers actually do in thanking episodes in naturally occurring telephone conversations 5. Implications of the studies in relation to teaching Japanese language and current debate on face and politeness

Über Autor(innen)

Jun Ohashi is a lecturer at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include cross-cultural pragmatics; communicative acts of thanking and their social meaning in Japan and Australia; gendered and generational variation of speech act realization; and cross-cultural investigation of public signs and exhortations. Jun is the author of various articles and book chapters.