Publications

Publication details [#56238]

Saito, Junko. 2012. Construction of institutional identities by male individuals in subordinate positions in the Japanese workplace. Pragmatics 22 (4) : 697–719.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse strategy | identity negotiation | men's language | power | workplace conversation

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This study qualitatively explores how male lower rank employees in a Japanese workplace draw on several discourse strategies to exhibit distinct institutional identities on a moment-by-moment basis in senior-subordinate workplace interaction.