1. 1. Japanese Sociolinguistics - with Special Reference to Western Research; 2. 1.1. Japanese language and society; 3. 1.2. Encoding social organization; 4. 1.3. Social variation; 5. 1.4. Language attitudes; 6. 1.5. Contact between Japanese and other languages in sociolinguistic perspective; 7. 1.6. Other topics in Japanese sociolinguistics; 8. 1.7. Conclusion; 9. 2. The Ethnography of Ritual and Address at a Japanese Wedding Reception; 10. 2.1. The reception: setting, participants, activities and functions; 11. 2.2. The linguistic components of ritual; 12. 2.3. Hierarchical and collective signals: the contextual dynamics of designatory forms; 13. 2.4. A concluding note; 14. 3. Speaking of Giving: The Pragmatics of Japanese Donatory Verbs; 15. 4. Cross-Cultural Contrasts; 16. 4.1. Pitch, politeness and sexual role; 17. 4.2. Semiotic schism in Japanese-Western interaction; 18. Appendix: Background notes on Japanese concepts of family and marriage; 19. Notes; 20. References; 21. List of Figures, Tables, Diagrams; 22. Fig.1 Simple flowchart of Japanese suffixes of address and reference; 23. Fig.2 The performance and relationships of participants at the wedding reception; 24. Fig.3 Corporate identification in designatory markers for the groom; 25. Fig.4 Semiotic schism; 26. Table 1. A comparison of speech giver's speech acts; 27. Table 2. Apologetic formulae occurring at the reception; 28. Table 3. Designatory markers for the groom occurring at the reception; 29. Table 4. The phonational ranges of the subjects; 30. Table 5. The fundamental frequency in Hz of Japanese and English politeness formulae obtained by pitch meter at the beginning and end of each utterance; 31. Table 6. The fundamental frequency in Hz of Japanese and English politeness formulae obtained by spectographic analysis at the peak and end of each utterance; 32. Diagram 1. Donatory forms where G is not the speaker nor belongs to the speaker's ingroup; 33. Diagram 2. Donatory forms where G is the speaker or in the speaker's group; 34. Diagram 3. Donatory forms where R is the speaker or in the speaker's ingroup; 35. Diagram 4. Scales of implicational deference where the giver is the speaker
