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 crystallizes the theoretical underpinnings of thanking, how it is realized linguistically and the social meaning and significance of this aspect of Japanes...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ohashi, Jun, 1962-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Subjects:	Politeness (Linguistics) > Japan. Gratitude > Social aspects > Japan. FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Japanese. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics.

Table 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.