In:Informality in Japanese: Getting close in a formal context
Edited by Haruko Minegishi Cook and Momoko Nakamura
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 357] 2027
► pp. v–vi
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Table of contents
Chapter 1.Introduction
Editors
Haruko Minegishi Cook
Nakamura Momoko
Section I.Resources to challenge contexts
Chapter 2.Construction of shared affect in a Japanese research interview: Changes in participation framework
Editor
Haruko Minegishi Cook
Chapter 3.Making connections: Reported speech, repetition, eccentric metaphor, and other resources in research
interview discourse
Editor
Satoko Suzuki
Chapter 4.Invoking rapport and feelings of usualness: Effects of quotidian reframing in a formal context
Editor
Yoshiko Matsumoto
Section II.Styling formality, styling informality
Chapter 5.The use of Standard and Kansai Japanese in business manners training camp: Style shifts and the reconfiguration of indexical fields
Editor
Junko Saito
Chapter 6.Formality and intimacy in Japanese News shows
Editor
Naomi Geyer
Chapter 7.Problem resolution through informal re-framing: Modulating
style and stance in Kansai
style and stance in Kansai
Editor
Lindsay Amthor Yotsukura
Section III.Resisting formality in media
Chapter 8.Sounding like a skateboarder at the Tokyo Olympics: Vernacular honorific speech style and innovative speaker identity
construction in Japanese
construction in Japanese
Editor
Sara King
Chapter 9.Vernacularizing Japanese live TV Olympic broadcasting: Norm negotiation, personalization, and sociolinguistic change
Editor
Momoko Nakamura
Chapter 10.‘Hey! What are you doing now!’: Negotiating closeness
and workplace relationships on Japanese TikTok
and workplace relationships on Japanese TikTok
Editor
Gavin Furukawa
Section IV.Discussion
Chapter 11.Epilogue: Styling as a dynamic and ideological process
of deploying multimodal semiotic resources
of deploying multimodal semiotic resources
Editor
Shigeko Okamoto
Notes on contributors (to be supplied)
Index (to be supplied)
