Publications

Publication details [#53598]

Ohashi, Jun. 2010. Balancing obligations: Bowing and linguistic features in thanking in Japanese. Journal of Politeness Research 6 (2) : 183–214.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bodily posture | discourse organization | face maintenance | speech | thanking

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper demonstrates that crucial speech formulae in balancing the debt-credit equilibrium (for face-maintenance) in Japanese thanking episodes are frequently accompanied by a bow.