Masaki Shibata
List of John Benjamins publications in which Masaki Shibata is involved.
Article
2020 Why do politicians cite others in political debates? A functional analysis of reported speech in a Japanese political debate Journal of Language and Politics 19:4, pp. 604–623 | Article
Politicians often quote opponents in political debates so as to highlight contradictions between the opponents’ prior statements and their current political actions, thus construing their political character negatively. From a dialogic perspective, reported speech, alternatively termed… read more