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 moshiwake 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.
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978-90-04-69146-9 (9789004691469)
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Eugenia Diegoli, Ph.D., is a research fellow at the University of Bologna. In her work, she studies how the Japanese language is used and interpreted in online settings. She has published translations and many articles in the most important venues in her field.
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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?Conclusions
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
?6?Conclusions
8 Apology Strategies
?1?The steps required for a 'proper apology'
?2?The coding scheme
?3?Results
?4?Discussion
?5?Conclusions
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
?6?Conclusions
11 Conclusions
?1?Overview
?2?Findings
?3?General discussion
?4?Limitations
?5?What's next?
?6?So what?
Appendix1: Concordance corpus
Appendix2: Additional figures
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