Japanese at Work: Politeness, Power, and Personae in Japanese Workplace Discourse – PDF

Japanese at Work: Politeness, Power, and Personae in Japanese Workplace Discourse – eBook PDF

Japanese at Work, (PDF) empirically discovers how different linguistic resources are used to attain appropriate workplace role inhabitance and to gain work-oriented communicative ends in several workplaces in Japan. Appropriate role inhabitance is seen to consist of considerations of gender and interpersonal familiarity, together with speaker orientation to normative structures for marking politeness and power. This exceptional researched edited collection will appeal to scholars of workplace discourse and Japanese sociolinguistics, together with Japanese language instructors and adult learners of Japanese. It is sure to make a vital contribution to the cross-linguistic/cultural study of the workplace communication in the globalized context of the twenty-first century.

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