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Publication details [#53037]

Long, Christopher. 2010. Apology in Japanese gratitude situations: The negotiation of interlocutor role-relations. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (4) : 1060–1075.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

apologizing | interlocutor role | language acquisition | socialization | thanking

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This study argues that Japanese apology–gratitude expressions constitute a general strategy for negotiating interlocutor role-relations, acquired gradually (from the 1st to the 9th school grade) as part of the language socialization process.