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Thanking And Politeness In Japanese: Balancing Acts In Interaction Hardcover

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Jun Ohashi
Book Description
This book synthesizes previous work on thanking, politeness and Japanese pragmatics and crystallises the theoretical underpinnings of thanking, how it is realized linguistically and the social meaning and significance of this aspect of Japanese communication.
ISBN-10
1137009861
ISBN-13
9781137009869
Language
English
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Publication Date
29 Nov 2013
About the Author
Jun Ohashi is a lecturer at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include cross-cultural pragmatics; communicative acts of thanking and their social meaning in Japan and Australia; gendered and generational variation of speech act realization; and cross-cultural investigation of public signs and exhortations. Jun is the author of various articles and book chapters.