Naomi Geyer

List of John Benjamins publications for which Naomi Geyer plays a role.

Articles

Geyer, Naomi 2018 Chapter 6. Negotiating entitlement in Japanese: The case of requesting formsPragmatics of Japanese: Perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture, Hudson, Mutsuko Endo, Yoshiko Matsumoto and Junko Mori (eds.), pp. 149–172 | Chapter
This study investigates how speakers construct their entitlement (the speaker’s right and/or capacity to perform certain actions) in requests observed in Japanese workplace discourse. It shows that the -te kudasai format frequently appears in requests originally issued by an outside entity and… read more
Geyer, Naomi 2008 Interpersonal functions of style shift: The use of plain and masu forms in faculty meetingsStyle Shifting in Japanese, Jones, Kimberly and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 39–70 | Chapter