Sachiko Ide

List of John Benjamins publications in which Sachiko Ide is involved.

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Pragmatics and Society

Edited by Daria Dayter

ISSN 1878-9714 | E‑ISSN 1878‑9722

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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

Emancipatory Pragmatics represents a unique contribution to the field of pragmatics. Most research in the field has focused on English and other Western languages, but the study of Japanese and other non-Western languages, as is done in this volume, has led to a broader understanding of language… read more
[Culture and Language Use, 24] 2025. xiv, 384 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Broadening the Horizon of Linguistic Politeness

Edited by Robin T. Lakoff and Sachiko Ide

This collection of 19 papers celebrates the coming of age of the field of politeness studies, now in its 30th year. It begins with an investigation of the meaning of politeness, especially linguistic politeness, and presents a short history of the field of linguistic politeness studies, showing how… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 139] 2005. xii, 342 pp.
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Ide, Sachiko 2025 Ba pragmatics: A paradigm complementary to the Western theory of politenessEmancipatory Pragmatics: Innovative approaches to pragmatics incorporating the concept of “ba”, Fujii, Yoko, William F. Hanks, Sachiko Ide, Scott Saft and Kishiko Ueno (eds.), pp. 36–67 | Chapter
This paper proposes ba pragmatics as a paradigm complementary to the existing theories of pragmatics. Ba pragmatics makes it possible to logically interpret some Japanese language phenomena such as politeness that appear to be puzzling from the viewpoint of Western researchers. After the… read more
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Why is Japanese linguistic politeness characterized by wakimae? This paper argues that wakimae, or linguistic politeness, can be traced back to two roots. First, the Japanese language has abundant modal expressions from the morpheme level to the discourse level that index the context in order to… read more
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Lakoff, Robin T. and Sachiko Ide 2005 Introduction: Broadening the horizon of linguistic politenessBroadening the Horizon of Linguistic Politeness, Lakoff, Robin T. and Sachiko Ide (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Article
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Ide, Sachiko 2003 Japanese. Women’s language as a group identity marker in JapaneseGender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men, Hellinger, Marlis and Hadumod Bußmann (eds.), pp. 227–238 | Article
1.Introduction 2.The indigenous way of looking at women’s language 3.Women’s languages in women’s worlds 3.1Nyoobo kotoba: The language of court ladies 3.2Yuujogo: The language of the courtesans 4.The impact on present-day women’s language 4.1Establishing women’s language as a group language 4. read more
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Ide, Sachiko 2001 PrefaceLinguistic Politeness Across Boundaries: The case of Greek and Turkish, Bayraktaroğlu, Arın and Maria Sifianou (eds.), pp. xi–xiv | Preface
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