Naomi Geyer
List of John Benjamins publications in which Naomi Geyer is involved.
Articles
2018 Chapter 6. Negotiating entitlement in Japanese: The case of requesting forms Pragmatics of Japanese: Perspectives on grammar, interaction and culture, Hudson, Mutsuko Endo, Yoshiko Matsumoto and Junko Mori (eds.), pp. 149–172 | Chapter
This study investigates how speakers construct their entitlement (the speaker’s right and/or capacity to perform certain actions) in requests observed in Japanese workplace discourse. It shows that the -te kudasai format frequently appears in requests originally issued by an outside entity and… read more
2008 Interpersonal functions of style shift: The use of plain and masu forms in faculty meetings Style Shifting in Japanese, Jones, Kimberly and Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.), pp. 39–70 | Chapter