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In:Mapping Genres, Mapping Culture: Japanese texts in context
Edited by Elizabeth A. Thomson, Motoki Sano and Helen de Silva Joyce
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 281] 2017
► pp. 57–91

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Chapter 3
The directive genre in the Japanese workplace

Published online: 7 December 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.281.03miz
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The corpus
  • 3.Interpersonal meanings
    • 3.1Mood
    • 3.2Honourification
  • 4.Hedging in the Japanese workplace
  • 5.Text structure
  • 6.Enactment of a good relationship among co-workers
  • A glossary of abbreviations for interlinear glossing
  • Acknowledgement
  • Notes
  • References
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