Publications

Publication details [#53097]

Geyer, Naomi. 2010. Teasing and ambivalent face in Japanese multi-party discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (8) : 2120–2130.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ambiguity | conversational analysis | face maintenance | multiparty conversation | teasing

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Adopting conversation analytic and ethnographic discourse approaches, this study explores teasing –a potential face threatening or face enhancing act– in Japanese institutional multi-party discourse.