Navigating Language in Parliamentary Practice - Between Courtesy and Conflict in Japan

Tanaka in this book explores the language used in Japanese parliamentary interactions to shed light on the use of language as a tool by politicians to convince, negotiate, persuade, as well as deliver aggression and criticism.

List of contents

1 Introducing Japanese parliamentary discourse and pragmatics; 2 Politicians' language: Some preliminaries; 3 Questions in The House of Representatives meetings; 4 Impoliteness in The House of Representative meetings; 5 Heckling and interruptions in The House of Representatives meetings; 6 Pronouns and address terms in The House of Representative meetings; 7 Insights about Japanese Parliamentary interactions

About the author

Lidia Tanaka is currently Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Languages and Linguistics at La Trobe University, Australia, where she taught in the Japanese program for more than 20 years.

Summary

Tanaka in this book explores the language used in Japanese parliamentary interactions to shed light on the use of language as a tool by politicians to convince, negotiate, persuade, as well as deliver aggression and criticism.

Product details

• Authors: Lidia Tanaka, Lidia (La Trobe University Tanaka, Tanaka Lidia
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032897653
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3289765-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Routledge Research in Pragmatics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Japan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Society & culture: general, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Politics & government, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, Society and culture: general, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc