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

Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2008.

Series:

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

Format/Description:

Book
vi, 335 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subjects:

Japanese language -- Style.

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.

Contributor:

Jones, Kimberly, 1959-
Ono, Tsuyoshi.

ISBN:

9789027254252 (hb : alk. paper)
9027254257 (hb : alk. paper)

OCLC:

236117308

Online:

Table of contents only
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0824/2008031616.html

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