Thanking and politeness in Japanese : balancing acts in interaction
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Thanking and politeness in Japanese : balancing acts in interaction
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-204) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book 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.
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
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