Explorations in Japanese Sociolinguistics

• 1. Japanese Sociolinguistics - with Special Reference to Western Research | p. 1
• 1.1. Japanese language and society
• 1.2. Encoding social organization
• 1.3. Social variation
• 1.4. Language attitudes
• 1.5. Contact between Japanese and other languages in sociolinguistic perspective
• 1.6. Other topics in Japanese sociolinguistics
• 1.7. Conclusion
• 2. The Ethnography of Ritual and Address at a Japanese Wedding Reception | p. 33
• 2.1. The reception: setting, participants, activities and functions
• 2.2. The linguistic components of ritual
• 2.3. Hierarchical and collective signals: the contextual dynamics of designatory forms
• 2.4. A concluding note
• 3. Speaking of Giving: The Pragmatics of Japanese Donatory Verbs | p. 57
• 4. Cross-Cultural Contrasts | p. 79
• 4.1. Pitch, politeness and sexual role
• 4.2. Semiotic schism in Japanese-Western interaction
• Appendix: Background notes on Japanese concepts of family and marriage | p. 119
• Notes | p. 121
• List of Figures, Tables, Diagrams
• Fig.1 Simple flowchart of Japanese suffixes of address and reference | p. 7
• Fig.2 The performance and relationships of participants at the wedding reception | p. 36
• Fig.3 Corporate identification in designatory markers for the groom | p. 53
• Fig.4 Semiotic schism | p. 97
• Table 1. A comparison of speech giver's speech acts | p. 41
• Table 2. Apologetic formulae occurring at the reception | p. 44
• Table 3. Designatory markers for the groom occurring at the reception | p. 53
• Table 4. The phonational ranges of the subjects | p. 86
• Table 5. The fundamental frequency in Hz of Japanese and English politeness formulae obtained by pitch meter at the beginning and end of each utterance | p. 89
• Table 6. The fundamental frequency in Hz of Japanese and English politeness formulae obtained by spectographic analysis at the peak and end of each utterance | p. 89
• Diagram 1. Donatory forms where G is not the speaker nor belongs to the speaker's ingroup | p. 58
• Diagram 2. Donatory forms where G is the speaker or in the speaker's group | p. 60
• Diagram 3. Donatory forms where R is the speaker or in the speaker's ingroup | p. 63
• Diagram 4. Scales of implicational deference where the giver is the speaker | p. 76

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