Haruko Minegishi Cook

List of John Benjamins publications in which Haruko Minegishi Cook is involved.

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Informality in Japanese: Getting close in a formal context

Edited by Haruko Minegishi Cook and Momoko Nakamura

Informality is essential in human interaction as it fulfills the basic communicative need to connect with others. When and how do speakers of Japanese construct informality within so-called “formal” contexts and why do they do so? By going beyond the previous studies on speech style in Japanese,… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 357] 2027. vi, 273 pp. + index

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Cook, Haruko Minegishi 2027 Chapter 2. Construction of shared affect in a Japanese research interview: Changes in participation framework Informality in Japanese: Getting close in a formal context, Cook, Haruko Minegishi and Momoko Nakamura (eds.), pp. 20–49 | Chapter

This chapter explores how the participants of a multi-party research interview create an informal context within the formality of a research interview. The qualitative analysis of the data reveals that formality/informality is not only indexed by the desu/masu and plain forms but also is… read more

Cook, Haruko Minegishi and Momoko Nakamura 2027 Chapter 1. Introduction Informality in Japanese: Getting close in a formal context, Cook, Haruko Minegishi and Momoko Nakamura (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter

Cook, Haruko Minegishi 2018 Chapter 5. Superiors’ directives in the Japanese workplace: Are they all strategic? Pragmatics of Japanese: Perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture, Hudson, Mutsuko Endo, Yoshiko Matsumoto and Junko Mori (eds.), pp. 125–148 | Chapter

One of the criticisms against Brown and Levinson’s universal theory of politeness (1987) is the assertion that discernment politeness is more important than volitional politeness in Japanese society (e.g., Ide 1989; Hill et al. 1986). Contrary to this claim, studies that have analyzed actual… read more

Cook, Haruko Minegishi 2008 Style shifts in Japanese academic consultations Style Shifting in Japanese, Jones, Kimberly and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 9–38 | Chapter

Cook, Haruko Minegishi 1987 Social meanings of the Japanese sentence-final particle no IPrA Papers in Pragmatics 1:2, pp. 123–168 | Article