Thanking and Politeness in Japanese - Balancing Acts in Interaction

"Thanking and Politeness in Japanese: Balancing Acts in Interaction 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. The book employs three empirical studies to reveal conversational participants' collaborative work in thanking episodes, specifically, their acts of balancing obligations. It illuminates the mutually dependent nature of social interaction in Japanese and beyond, and suggests a new theoretical framework in understanding what is expected in social interaction across the languages. This is the definitive work on how Japanese people thank one another, and will provide ongoing value to second language Japanese teachers, textbook writers and academics seeking to make sense of, and define, this beautifully subtle, complex yet essential speech act in Japanese. "--

List of contents

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

Product details

• Authors: J Ohashi, J. Ohashi, Jun Ohashi
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.11.2013
• EAN: 9781137009869
• ISBN: 978-1-137-00986-9
• No. of pages: 241
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; B, Linguistics, Pragmatics, Japanese, Sociolinguistics, languages, Linguistics, general, Language: reference & general, Language: history & general works, East & Southeast Asian languages, Language and languages, Asian Languages, Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Oriental literature, Asian Literature, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Japanese language