Thanking and Politeness in Japanese Balancing Acts in Interaction
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 communicat
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Thanking and Politeness in Japanese Balancing Acts in Interaction Jun Ohashi University of Melbourne, Australia
© Jun Ohashi 2013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-1-137-00986-9 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.
ISBN 978-1-349-43616-3 ISBN 978-1-137-00987-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137009876 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Typeset by MPS Limited, Chennai, India.
This book is dedicated with love to my wife, Hiroko, and my daughters, Kana and Mana
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Contents List of Tables and Figures
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Preface
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Acknowledgements
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List of Symbols and Abbreviations
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1 Introduction
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1.1
Aims of the study
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1.2
Culture specificity in thanking
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1.3
Politeness as social norm and/or strategy
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1.4
Questioning Anglo-centric theorisation
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1.5
Changing face and politeness: from what is given/possessed to what emerges in interaction
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1.5.1 Face and politeness as discursive struggle
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1.5.2 First-order politeness (politeness1) and second-order politeness (politeness2)
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1.5.3 Durability of face and the notion of norms
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Structure of the book and main arguments
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1.6
2 Review of Data Elicitation Methods
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2.1
Communication strategies in elicited data
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2.2
Data elicitation methods in interlanguage and cross-cultural pragmatics studies
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The discourse completion task (DCT)
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