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

Cited by 24 other publications

Axelson, Elizabeth

2022. Vocatives. Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) ► pp. 95 ff.

Kataoka, Kuniyoshi

2022. Affect in Japanese women’s letter writing. Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) ► pp. 427 ff.

Kitayama, Tamaki

2022. The distribution and characteristics of Japanese vocatives in business situations. Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) ► pp. 447 ff.

Eric, Mélac & Nicolas Tournadre

2021. Chapter 7. The semantics of the verb give in Tibetan. In GiveConstructions across Languages [Constructional Approaches to Language, 29], ► pp. 175 ff.

Sleeper, Morgan & Daphne Iskos

2021. “In the name(s) of the moon!”: ‘Japaneseness’ & Reader Identity in Two Translations of Sailor Moon. The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies 2 ► pp. 121 ff.

Fabbretti, Matteo

2017. Manga scanlation for an international readership: the role of English as a lingua franca. The Translator 23:4 ► pp. 456 ff.

Kiaer, Jieun & Anna Bordilovskaya

2017. Hybrid English words in Korean and Japanese: a strange brew or an asset for global English?. Asian Englishes 19:2 ► pp. 169 ff.

Keri & Keri Matwick

2015. East Meets West The Discourse of Japanese American Cookbooks as Intercultural Communication. Journal of Intercultural Communication 15:3 ► pp. 1 ff.

Gladkova, Anna

2012. Grammar and the Influence of Society and Culture. In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics,

Wagener, Albin

2012. Deconstructing Culture Towards an Interactional Triad. Journal of Intercultural Communication 12:2 ► pp. 1 ff.

Hiramoto, Mie

2010. Utterance Final Position and Projection of Femininity in Japanese. Gender and Language 4:1 ► pp. 99 ff.

Lee, Jamie Shinhee

2004. Linguistic hybridization in K‐Pop: discourse of self‐assertion and resistance. World Englishes 23:3 ► pp. 429 ff.

BREWSTER, DAMON

2002. Cross-cultural communication female and male Japanese learners in the English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom. Juntendo Medical Journal 48:1 ► pp. 111 ff.

Sturtz, Cindi

2002. ' Uwaki tte iu no wa attemo ii n janai ka ?': Japanese Men's Conversations Up-Close and Personal. Japanese Studies 22:1 ► pp. 49 ff.

Tanaka, Hiroko & Mihoko Fukushima

2002. Gender orientations to outward appearance in Japanese conversation: a study in grammar and interaction. Discourse & Society 13:6 ► pp. 749 ff.

Kowner, Rotem & Judith Rosenhouse

2001. Cultural policy on loanword adoption in modern Japanese and Hebrew: A comparative study. International Journal of Cultural Policy 7:3 ► pp. 521 ff.

Ohara, Yumiko

1999. Performing gender through voice pitch: A cross-cultural analysis of Japanese and American English. In Wahrnehmung und Herstellung von Geschlecht, ► pp. 105 ff.

HAYASHI, TAKUO & REIKO HAYASHI

1995. A cognitive study of English loanwords in Japanese discourse. World Englishes 14:1 ► pp. 55 ff.

van Bezooijen, Reneé

1995. Sociocultural Aspects of Pitch Differences between Japanese and Dutch Women. Language and Speech 38:3 ► pp. 253 ff.

IWASAKI, YASUFUMI

1994. Englishization of Japanese and acculturation of English to Japanese culture. World Englishes 13:2 ► pp. 261 ff.

Smith, Janet S.

1992. Women in charge: Politeness and directives in the speech of Japanese women. Language in Society 21:1 ► pp. 59 ff.

TAKASHI, KYOKO

1990. A sociolinguistic analysis of English borrowings in Japanese advertising texts. World Englishes 9:3 ► pp. 327 ff.

Kanazawa, Hiroki & Leo Loveday

1988. The Japanese immigrant community in Brazil: Language contact and shift. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 9:5 ► pp. 423 ff.

SanAntonio, Patricia M.

1987. Social Mobility and Language Use in an American Company in Japan. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 6:3-4 ► pp. 191 ff.

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 27 october 2024. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.

Main BIC Subject

Main BISAC Subject