Thanking and Politeness in Japanese

Balancing Acts in Interaction

• Author(s): J. Ohashi,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 227
• ISBN_10: 113700987X
  ISBN_13: 9781137009876
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Asian / General , Foreign Language Study / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Foreign Language Study / Japanese , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Pragmatics , Literary Criticism / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Reference , Language Arts & Disciplines / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Semantics ,

Description:... 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.