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Thanking and Politeness in Japanese

Balancing Acts in Interaction

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Jun Ohashi

    1. University of Melbourne, Australia

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Jun Ohashi
    Pages 1-20

  3. Review of Data Elicitation Methods

    • Jun Ohashi
    Pages 21-37

  4. Revealing Patterns: Descriptive Empirical Norms (Studies 1 and 2)

    • Jun Ohashi
    Pages 38-76

  5. What Japanese Native Speakers Actually Do in Thanking Episodes in Naturally Occurring Telephone Conversations

    • Jun Ohashi
    Pages 77-104

  6. Implications of the Studies in Relation to Teaching Japanese Language and Current Debate on Face and Politeness

    • Jun Ohashi
    Pages 105-131

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 132-213
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About this book

This book synthesizes previous work on thanking, politeness and Japanese pragmatics and crystallises the theoretical underpinnings of thanking, how it is realized linguistically and the social meaning and significance of this aspect of Japanese communication.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Melbourne, Australia

    Jun Ohashi

About the author

Jun Ohashi is a lecturer at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include cross-cultural pragmatics; communicative acts of thanking and their social meaning in Japan and Australia; gendered and generational variation of speech act realization; and cross-cultural investigation of public signs and exhortations. Jun is the author of various articles and book chapters.

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