In:Emancipatory Pragmatics: Innovative approaches to pragmatics incorporating the concept of “ba”
Edited by Yoko Fujii, William F. Hanks, Sachiko Ide, Scott Saft and Kishiko Ueno
[Culture and Language Use 24] 2025
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 2 December 2025
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Table of contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1.Introduction
Editors
Scott Saft
William F. Hanks
Part 1.Theoretical considerations
Chapter 2.Ba pragmatics: A paradigm complementary to the Western theory of politeness
Editor
Sachiko Ide
Chapter 3.Japanese as a ba-oriented and predicate-centered language: Non-western perspectives for the representation of the world
Editor
Yoko Fujii
Chapter 4.The process of speech emergence in dialogue: Perspectives from Eastern philosophy
Editor
Kiyoshi Kawahara
Part 2.Ba at the grammar level
Chapter 5.The neutral -ta style in Korean: (Inter)subjectivity and ba theory
Editor
Myung-Hee Kim
Chapter 6.Differential manifestations of the impact of ba on grammar: Case studies from Japanese and Korean
Editors
Kaoru Horie
Kangwon Lee
Jaehyun Lee
Part 3.Ba at the discourse level
Chapter 7.The emergence of affect through resonance and “thin laughter”: An interpretation from the ba perspective
Editor
Risako Ide
Chapter 8.The fun of repeating: Using ba theory to explore how Japanese speakers jointly engage in conversational
playfulness
Editor
Saeko Machi
Part 4.Ba through a comparative lens
Chapter 9.Who is telling the story? A ba based analysis of a Japanese children’s picture book
Editor
Keiko Naruoka
Chapter 10.Deixis and self-reference: A comparison between Indo-European and East Asian languages, in EP’s framework
Editor
Federica De Milano
Chapter 11.Articulation of self in Japanese and English: An interpretation based on the concept of basho
Editor
Kishiko Ueno
Part 5.Ba across languages and cultures
Chapter 12.Empathy and vocatives in Chinese: From the perspective of ba pragmatics
Editors
Yansheng Mao
Yue Zhao
Chapter 13.Emancipatory Pragmatics and the application of the concept
of ba to an indigenous language and culture: The case of Hawaiian
of ba to an indigenous language and culture: The case of Hawaiian
Editor
Scott Saft
Chapter 14.Situating self and others in task-based interaction: A cross-linguistic study through ba theory
Editors
Yoko Fujii
Myung-Hee Kim
Natthaporn Panpothong
Siriporn Phakdeephasook
Yusuke Mochizuki
Yoko Kurogo
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