Thanking and Politeness in Japanese [electronic resource] : Balancing Acts in Interaction /
Ohashi, J.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- 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.
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.
Oriental literature.
Languages.
Language and languages.
Linguistics.
Sociolinguistics.
Japanese language.
Pragmatics.
Asian Literature.
Asian Languages.
Linguistics, general.
Sociolinguistics.
Japanese.
Pragmatics.