Scott Saft

List of John Benjamins publications for which Scott Saft plays a role.

Articles

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Saft, Scott 2021 Review of Berman (2019): Talking like Children: Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands Pragmatics and Society 12:1, pp. 146–150 | Review
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Saft, Scott, Gabriel Tebow and Ronald Santos 2018 Hawaiʻi Creole in the public domain: Humor, emphasis, and heteroglossic language practice in university commencement speeches Pragmatics 28:3, pp. 417–438 | Article
In light of a belief that Hawaiʻi Creole (HC) is mostly inappropriate in public domains of society, this study examines how it was employed in two university commencement speeches by a local politician in Hawaiʻi. The analysis adopts the perspective of heteroglossia (Bakhtin 1981) in order to… read more
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Saft, Scott 2001 Displays of concession in university faculty meetings: Culture and interaction in Japanese Pragmatics 11:3, pp. 223–262 | Article
In light of the tendency in studies of Japanese discourse and communication to account for patterns of social interaction in terms of cultural concepts such as wa (“harmony”), omoiyari (“empathy”), and enryo (“restraint”), this report sets out to demonstrate how much of an endogenously produced,… read more