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Pragmatics of Japanese: Perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture
Edited by Mutsuko Endo Hudson, Yoshiko Matsumoto and Junko Mori
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 285] 2018
► pp. v–vi

Table of contents

Dedication vii
Foreword xi
Acknowledgement xv
Introduction 1
Part I.Grammar
Chapter 1.Reason-coding in Japanese: A Multiple Grammar perspective 17
Chapter 2. Amari/anmari/anma and totemo/tottemo in history and discourse: Interaction of negative polarity and positive polarity 49
Chapter 3.The form and meaning of the dangling mitaina construction in a network of constructions 75
Chapter 4.“Late projectability” of Japanese turns Revisited: Interrelation between gaze and syntax in Japanese conversations 99
Part II.Interaction
Chapter 5.Superiors’ directives in the Japanese workplace: Are they all strategic? 125
Chapter 6.Negotiating entitlement in Japanese: The case of requesting forms 149
Chapter 7.From subjectivity to intersubjectivity: A discourse-pragmatic study of the Japanese epistemic marker kamo (shirenai) 173
Chapter 8. Ne as an “impoliteness” (“detachment”) marker? 197
Part III.Culture
Chapter 9.Genre and the cultural realms of taste in Japanese, Korean, and U.S. online recipes 219
Chapter 10.Metapragmatic discourse in self-help books on Japanese women’s speech: An indexical approach to social meanings 245
Chapter 11.Linguistic nationalism and fictional deception: Metapragmatic stereotype of non-Japanese in Japan 267
Chapter 12.How does a non-native Japanese Literary writer dissimulate and diversify the Japanese language? A case study of Hideo Levy 289
Index 309


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