Publications

Publication details [#31469]

Okamoto, Shinichiro. 2002. Politeness and the Perception of Irony: Honorifics in Japanese. Metaphor and Symbol 17 (2) : 119–139.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

honorific | irony | politeness | pragmatic implication

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Erlbaum

ISBN

1092-6488

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study examines the impact of Japanese honorifics -a system of politeness expressions- on irony perception in assertives. The findings suggest that the divergence of politeness levels in either direction, increases the perception of irony via pragmatic insincerity.