Publications

Publication details [#45714]

Haugh, Michael. 2007. Emic conceptualisations of (im)politeness and face in Japanese: Implications for the discursive negotiation of second language learner identities. Journal of Pragmatics 39 (4) : 657–680.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

emic vs. etic | face maintenance | identity negotiation | L2-acquisition | politeness

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This emic analysis argues that the discursive negotiation of Japanese second language learner identities is reflexively indexed via ‘place’ to the interactional ‘(im)politeness’ and ‘face’ achievement.