In:Style Shifting in Japanese
Edited by Kimberly Jones and Tsuyoshi Ono
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 180] 2008
► pp. v–vi
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements
The messy reality of style shifting
Style shifts in Japanese academic consultations
Interpersonal functions of style shift: The use of plain and masu forms in faculty meetings
Speech style shift as an interactional discourse strategy: The use and non-use of desu/-masu in Japanese conversational interviews
Playing with multiple voices: Emotivity and creativity in Japanese style mixture
Riyuu ‘Reason’ for nai desu and other semi-polite forms
Masen or nai desu – That is the question: A case study into Japanese conversational discourse
The power of femininity: Can Japanese gender variation signify contradictory social meanings?
Tuning speech style and persona
Speech style and the use of regional (Yamaguchi) and Standard Japanese in conversations
“Involved” speech style and deictic management of spatio-temporal and textual reference: A case of ko/so-deictics in Japanese
Variation in prosodic focus of the Japanese negative nai: Issues of language specificity, interactive style, and social situations
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