Online Apologies in Japanese / Eugenia Diegoli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diegoli, Eugenia, author.

Series:

Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2025.

Studies in Pragmatics.

Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2025

Studies in Pragmatics

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Asian Studies.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Language Note:

English and Japanese

Summary:

Apologies are ubiquitous in contemporary societies, yet their meanings and functions are rarely straightforward. Online Apologies in Japanese provides a comprehensive account of how three Japanese expressions commonly considered apologetic ( gomen, su(m)imasen and mōshiwake arimasen ) work in a data set collected from the Q&A website Yahoo! Chiebukuro. The focus is on three variables: their pragmatic functions, the discursive strategies they co-occur with, and the events and behaviours that warrant them. Theoretically, this book introduces a combination of established and emerging approaches in the field of pragmatics. Methodologically, it brings together corpus linguistics and discourse analysis for the study of Japanese. En route, it contains numerous insights on the speech act of apology, (im)politeness and related areas in a non-Western context.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Conventions

1 Introduction

1 What is it to apologise?

2 From form to function

3 A brief introduction to pragmatics and discourse

4 The choice of data

5 Defining ‘apology’

6 Morphosemantic features of Japanese apologetic IFID s

7 Why ‘apologies’ in Japanese?

8 Bringing together corpus linguistics and discourse studies

9 The data source: Yahoo! Chiebukuro

10 Research questions and aims

11 Conclusions

2 Speech Acts, (Im)politeness and Norms

1 From ‘apologies’ to (im)politeness

2 Operationalising politeness

3 Operationalising impoliteness

4 (Im)politeness as implicature

5 Brown and Levinson’s ‘universals’ in language use

6 Culturally determined (im)politeness

7 The discursive approach to (im)politeness

8 Conclusions

3 (Im)politeness in Computer-Mediated Discourse

1 Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Discourse

2 Expectations and norms in Computer-Mediated Discourse

3 Deceptive genres

4 Speech acts in online settings

5 Conclusions

4 Methodological Approaches to Speech Acts in Online Setting

1 A closer look at discourse and pragmatics

2 Corpus linguistics

3 Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis

4 Other viable approaches

5 Description of Corpus Construction and Annotation

1 Corpus construction

2 Corpus description

3 Limitations to the corpus construction

4 Pragmatic annotation of the corpus

5 Limitations to the corpus annotation

6 Conclusions

6 The Multifunctionality of Japanese Apology-like Expressions

1 I’m sorry, what?

2 Pragmatic functions across the three IFID s

3 Comparison and visualisation of pragmatic functions

4 Conclusions

7 The Apology Metadiscourse

1 Why metadiscourse?

2 Operationalising metadiscourse

3 From metadiscourse to metacomments

4 Other forms of reflexive awareness

5 Drawbacks of metadiscourse

8 Apology Strategies

1 The steps required for a ‘proper apology’

2 The coding scheme

3 Results

4 Discussion

9 The Role of Intensification and Downgraders

1 Intensification

2 Downgraders of the ‘apology’

3 Conclusions

10 What People are Apologising for

1 Offence and morality

2 Offence: a problematic notion

3 Types of transgression

4 ‘Apologies’ and morality

5 The apology tradeoff

1 Overview

2 Findings

3 General discussion

4 Limitations

5 What’s next?

6 So what?

Appendix1: Concordance corpus

Appendix2: Additional figures

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Diegoli, Eugenia Online Apologies in Japanese

ISBN:

9789004722392

OCLC:

1504765579

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004722392 DOI