In:Emancipatory Pragmatics: Innovative approaches to pragmatics incorporating the concept of “ba”
Edited by Yoko Fujii, William F. Hanks, Sachiko Ide, Scott Saft and Kishiko Ueno
[Culture and Language Use 24] 2025
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Published online: 2 December 2025
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Table of contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1.Introduction
Editors
Scott Saft
William F. Hanks
Part 1.Theoretical considerations
Chapter 2.Ba pragmatics: A paradigm complementary
to the Western theory of politeness
to the Western theory of politeness
Editor
Sachiko Ide
Chapter 3.Japanese as a ba-oriented and predicate-centered language: Non-western perspectives for the representation of the world
Editor
Yoko Fujii
Chapter 4.The process of speech emergence in dialogue: Perspectives from Eastern philosophy
Editor
Kiyoshi Kawahara
Part 2.Ba at the grammar level
Chapter 5.The neutral -ta style in Korean: (Inter)subjectivity
and ba theory
and ba theory
Editor
Myung-Hee Kim
Chapter 6.Differential manifestations of the impact of ba on grammar: Case studies from Japanese and Korean
Editors
Kaoru Horie
Kangwon Lee
Jaehyun Lee
Part 3.Ba at the discourse level
Chapter 7.The emergence of affect through resonance and “thin laughter”: An interpretation from the ba perspective
Editor
Risako Ide
Chapter 8.The fun of repeating: Using ba theory to explore how Japanese speakers jointly engage in conversational
playfulness
Editor
Saeko Machi
Part 4.Ba through a comparative lens
Chapter 9.Who is telling the story? A ba based analysis
of a Japanese children’s picture book
of a Japanese children’s picture book
Editor
Keiko Naruoka
Chapter 10.Deixis and self-reference: A comparison between
Indo-European and East Asian languages, in EP’s framework
Indo-European and East Asian languages, in EP’s framework
Editor
Federica De Milano
Chapter 11.Articulation of self in Japanese and English: An interpretation based on the concept of basho
Editor
Kishiko Ueno
Part 5.Ba across languages and cultures
Chapter 12.Empathy and vocatives in Chinese: From the perspective
of ba pragmatics
of ba pragmatics
Editors
Yansheng Mao
Yue Zhao
Chapter 13.Emancipatory Pragmatics and the application of the concept
of ba to an indigenous language and culture: The case of Hawaiian
of ba to an indigenous language and culture: The case of Hawaiian
Editor
Scott Saft
Chapter 14.Situating self and others in task-based interaction: A cross-linguistic study through ba theory
Editors
Yoko Fujii
Myung-Hee Kim
Natthaporn Panpothong
Siriporn Phakdeephasook
Yusuke Mochizuki
Yoko Kurogo
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