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Publication details [#60200]

Fairbrother, Lisa. 2015. The management of language and power in intercultural contact situations in Japan. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2015 (232) : 59–78.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative failure | intercultural communication | multilingualism | power | speaker's position

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper explores how interlocutors manage digressions linked to language and power in everyday intercultural contact situations in Japan. Speaker identity constitutes a key issue in the management of interactional problems.