Sara King
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sara King is involved.
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2027 Chapter 8. Sounding like a skateboarder at the Tokyo Olympics: Vernacular honorific speech style and innovative speaker identity construction in Japanese Informality in Japanese: Getting close in a formal context, Cook, Haruko Minegishi and Momoko Nakamura (eds.), pp. 174–199 | Chapter
Drawing on the Japanese broadcast of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics skateboarding event, this chapter examines how a sports commentator’s use of a vernacular honorific speech style served to distinguish dual roles they assumed during the event. While a large body of work has demonstrated style… read more
