Publications

Publication details [#44140]

Cook, Haruko Minegishi. 2006. Japanese politeness as an interactional achievement: Academic consultation sessions in Japanese universities. Multilingua 25 (3) : 269–291.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic world | consulting | interaction | politeness

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This paper uses a social constructionist approach to explore speech-style shifts in professor-student academic consultation sessions in Japanese universities and shows that Japanese politeness constitutes an interactional achievement.