Hiromasa Tanaka
List of John Benjamins publications for which Hiromasa Tanaka plays a role.
Articles
Chapter 10. Discursive construction and deconstruction of trust: The aftermath of a nuclear accident Trust and Discourse: Organizational perspectives, Pelsmaekers, Katja, Geert Jacobs and Craig Rollo (eds.), pp. 201–218 | Article
2014 Politeness in a Japanese intra-organisational meeting: Honorifics and socio-dialectal code switching Institutional Politeness in (South) East Asia, Bargiela, Francesca and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 60–76 | Article
2011 This paper examines data collected during an intra-organisational meeting in a Japanese company. It illustrates how, in a situation involving potential conflicts, some Japanese managers switch between different linguistic codes in order to construct situational meaning. The interlocutors’… read more
Emerging English-speaking business discourses in Japan Asian Business Discourse(s) Part II, Bargiela, Francesca (ed.), pp. 25–50 | Article
2006 Taking an ethnographic approach, this research investigates workplace interaction in English in a Japanese chemical company, a subsidiary of American multinational corporation. While previous research on business communication has focused on specific linguistic or rhetorical features, this study… read more