Publications

Publication details [#53068]

Burdelski, Matthew. 2010. Socializing politeness routines: Action, other-orientation, and embodiment in a Japanese preschool. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (6) : 1606–1621.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse strategy | empathy | politeness | pre-school age | socialization

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study examines the verbal and non-verbal strategies deployed by Japanese preschool teachers to socialize native and non-native Japanese speaking children into Japanese politeness routines and the ways children respond to these routines with peers and socialize peers into them.