Style shifting in Japanese / edited by Kimberly Jones, Tsuyoshi Ono.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Kimberly, 1959-

Ono, Tsuyoshi.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser., 180.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., v. 180

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese language--Style.

Japanese language.

Physical Description:

vi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., [2008]

Contents:

The messy reality of style shifting / Kimberly Jones and Tsuyoshi Ono

Style shifts in Japanese academic consultations / Haruko Minegishi Cook

Interpersonal functions of style shift: the use of plain and masu forms in faculty meetings / Naomi Geyer

Speech style shift as an interactional discourse strategy: the use and non-use of desu/-masu in Japanese conversational interviews / Shoko Ikuta

Playing with multiple voices: emotivity and creativity in Japanese style mixture / Senko K. Maynard

Riyuu 'reason for nai desu and other semi-polite forms / Mutsuko Endo Hudson

Masen or nai desu, that is the question: a case study into Japanese conversational discourse / Satoshi Uehara and Etsuko Fukushima

The power of femininity: can Japanese gender variation signify contradictory social meanings? / Yuka Matsugu

Tuning speech style and persona / Yoshiko Matsumoto

Speech style and the use of regional (Yamaguchi) and standard Japanese in conversations / Shigeko Okamoto

"Involved" speech style and deictic management of spatio-temporal and textual reference: a case of ko/so-deictics in Japanese / Kuniyoshi Kataoka

Variation in prosodic focus of the Japanese negative nai: issues of language specificity, interactive style, and social situations / Shoji Takano.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027254252

9027254257

OCLC:

236117308