Japanese at Work: Politeness, Power, and Personae in Japanese Workplace Discourse

Author:   Haruko Minegishi Cook ,  Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2018 ed.
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9783030096953


Pages:   234
Publication Date:   19 December 2018
Format:   Paperback
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This book empirically explores how different linguistic resources are utilized to achieve appropriate workplace role inhabitance and to achieve work-oriented communicative ends in a variety of workplaces in Japan. Appropriate role inhabitance is seen to include considerations of gender and interpersonal familiarity, along with speaker orientation to normative structures for marking power and politeness. This uniquely researched edited collection will appeal to scholars of workplace discourse and Japanese sociolinguistics, as well as Japanese language instructors and adult learners of Japanese. It is sure to make a major contribution to the cross-linguistic/cultural study of workplace discourse in the globalized context of the twenty-first century.

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Author:   Haruko Minegishi Cook ,  Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2018 ed.
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9783030096953


ISBN 10:   3030096955
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   19 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Japanese at work is a valuable collection of studies that engage with not only linguistic practice in the workplace, but the ways in which workers are socialized into those practices. ... Japanese at work makes a timely, needed contribution to the field. (Hannah E. Dahlberg-Dodd, Language in Society, Vol. 48 (1), February, 2019)


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Haruko Minegishi Cook is Professor of Japanese at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. Her main research interests include language socialization, discourse analysis, and pragmatics. She has published widely on Japanese sentence-final particles and honorifics in edited volumes and major journals. Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, USA. She is a specialist in Japanese language, society and culture, with an emphasis on the interaction between ideology and practice. 

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