Style shifting in Japanese
By: edited by Kimberly Jones, Tsuyoshi Ono.
Contributors: Jones, Kimberly.; Ono, Tsuyoshi.
Series: Pragmatics & beyond new series
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub. Co.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9789027254252
Subjects: Japanese language -- Style
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The messy reality of style shifting / Kimberly Jones and Tsuyoshi Ono; title: Style shifts in Japanese academic consultations / Haruko Minegishi Cook; title: Style shift as facework: the use of plain and masu forms in faculty meetings / Naomi Geyer; title: Speech style shift as an interactional discourse strategy: the use and non-use of desu/-masu in Japanese conversational interviews / Shoko Ikuta; title: Playing with multiple voices: emotivity and creativity in Japanese style mixture / Senko K. Maynard; title: Riyuu (Reason) for nai desu and other semi-polite forms / Mutsuko Endo Hudson; title: Masen or nai desu, that is the question: a case study into Japanese conversational discourse / Satoshi Uehara and Etsuko Fukushima; title: The power of femininity: can Japanese gender variation signify contradictory social meanings? / Yuka Matsugu; title: Tuning speech style and persona / Yoshiko Matsumoto; title: Speech style and the use of regional (Yamaguchi) and standard Japanese in conversations / Shigeko Okamoto; title: "Involved" speech style and deictic management of spatio-temporal and textual reference: a case of ko/so-deictics in Japanese / Kuniyoshi Kataoka; title: Variation in prosodic focus of the Japanese negative nai: issues of language specificity, interactive style, and social situations / Shoji Takano.