Style Shifting in Japanese
Published on 17. December 2008
Book
Hardback
335 pages
978-90-272-5425-2 (ISBN)
Description
This innovative and interdisciplinary book on style shifting in Japanese brings together a wide range of perspectives and methodologies-including discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and functional linguistics-to look at a variety of types of style shifting in both spoken and written Japanese discourse. Though diverse in approach, the contributions all reflect the belief that language use is inextricably linked to both context and language structure in mutually constitutive relationships. Topics covered include shifting between "polite" and "plain" styles, the emergence of a "semi-polite" style, speakers' strategic use of gendered styles or regional dialects, shifting between different deictic expressions, and prosodic shifting. This careful and detailed examination advances our understanding of the complex phenomenon of style shifting not only in Japanese, but also more generally, and will be of interest to researchers and students in fields such as linguistics, linguistic anthropology, communication studies, and second language acquisition and teaching.
Reviews / Votes
The papers in this book address the topic of style shifting in a highly interrelated yet multi-faceted way, giving the reader both depth and breadth of understanding. [...] The research methodologies represented are solid, innovative, and helpful in articulating directions for futurework. There is also broad reference to extant research, which helps to ground the reader theoretically. -- Julie Bruch, Mesa State College, USA, on Linguist List, 20.2585More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
770 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-5425-2 (9789027254252)
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Kimberly Jones | Tsuyoshi Ono
Style Shifting in Japanese
E-Book
12/2008
1st Edition
John Benjamins Publishing Company
€123.99
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Content
1. Acknowledgements; 2. The messy reality of style shifting (by Jones, Kimberly); 3. Style shifts in Japanese academic consultations (by Minegishi Cook, Haruko); 4. Interpersonal functions of style shift: The use of plain and masu forms in faculty meetings (by Geyer, Naomi); 5. Speech style shift as an interactional discourse strategy: The use and non-use of desu/-masu in Japanese conversational interviews (by Ikuta, Shoko); 6. Playing with multiple voices: Emotivity and creativity in Japanese style mixture (by Maynard, Senko K.); 7. Riyuu 'Reason' for nai desu and other semi-polite forms (by Hudson, Mutsuko Endo); 8. Masen or nai desu - That is the question: A case study into Japanese conversational discourse (by Uehara, Satoshi); 9. The power of femininity: Can Japanese gender variation signify contradictory social meanings? (by Matsugu, Yuka); 10. Tuning speech style and persona (by Matsumoto, Yoshiko); 11. Speech style and the use of regional (Yamaguchi) and Standard Japanese in conversations (by Okamoto, Shigeko); 12. "Involved" speech style and deictic management of spatio-temporal and textual reference: A case of ko/so-deictics in Japanese (by Kataoka, Kuniyoshi); 13. Variation in prosodic focus of the Japanese negative nai: Issues of language specificity, interactive style, and social situations (by Takano, Shoji); 14. Name index; 15. Subject index