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Politeness, Power, and Personae in Japanese Workplace Discourse

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Book Details

Weight 323 g
Dimensions 148 × 210 mm
ISBN

9783030096953
Book Cover

Paperback / softback
Publisher

Springer International Publishing
Pages

234
Publishing Date

2018

About The Author

Cook, Haruko Minegishi

This book empirically explores how different linguistic resources are utilized to achieve appropriate workplace role inhabitance and to achieve work-oriented communicative ends in a variety of workplaces in Japan. Appropriate role inhabitance is seen to include considerations of gender and interpersonal familiarity, along with speaker orientation to normative structures for marking power and politeness. This uniquely researched edited collection will appeal to scholars of workplace discourse and Japanese sociolinguistics, as well as Japanese language instructors and adult learners of Japanese. It is sure to make a major contribution to the cross-linguistic/cultural study of workplace discourse in the globalized context of the twenty-first century. Chapter 1. Bowing Incorrectly:  Aesthetic labor and expert knowledge in Japanese business etiquette training; Cynthia Dickel Dunn.

Chapter 2. Socialization to acting, feeling, and thinking as shakaijin: New employee orientations in a Japanese company; Haruko Minegishi Cook.- Chapter 3. Representing the Japanese workplace: Linguistic strategies for getting the work done; Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith.
Chapter 4. “Sarariiman” and the performance of masculinities at work: An analysis of interactions at business meetings at a multinational corporation in Japan; Junko Saito.
Chapter 5. Constructing identity in the Japanese workplace through dialectal and honorific shifts; Andrew Barke.
Chapter 6. Humor and laughter in Japanese business meetings; Kazuyo Murata.
Chapter 7. Directives in Japanese workplace discourse; Naomi Geyer.
Chapter 8. Terms of address and identity in American-Japanese workplace interaction; Stephen J. Moody.

“Japanese at work is a valuable collection of studies that engage with not only linguistic practice in the workplace, but the ways in which workers are socialized into those practices. … Japanese at work makes a timely, needed contribution to the field.” (Hannah E. Dahlberg-Dodd, Language in Society, Vol. 48 (1), February, 2019) Haruko Minegishi Cook is Professor of Japanese at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. Her main research interests include language socialization, discourse analysis, and pragmatics. She has published widely on Japanese sentence-final particles and honorifics in edited volumes and major journals.

Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, USA. She is a specialist in Japanese language, society and culture, with an emphasis on the interaction between ideology and practice. 

This book empirically explores how different linguistic resources are utilized to achieve appropriate workplace role inhabitance and to achieve work-oriented communicative ends in a variety of workplaces in Japan. Appropriate role inhabitance is seen to include considerations of gender and interpersonal familiarity, along with speaker orientation to normative structures for marking power and politeness. This uniquely researched edited collection will appeal to scholars of workplace discourse and Japanese sociolinguistics, as well as Japanese language instructors and adult learners of Japanese. It is sure to make a major contribution to the cross-linguistic/cultural study of workplace discourse in the globalized context of the twenty-first century.

Haruko Minegishi Cook is Professor of Japanese at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. Her main research interests include language socialization, discourse analysis, and pragmatics. She has published widely on Japanese sentence-final particles and honorifics in edited volumes and major journals.

Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, USA. She is a specialist in Japanese language, society and culture, with an emphasis on the interaction between ideology and practice. Publications include Japanese Women’s Language (1985), the edited volume Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology (with Shigeko Okamoto, 2004), and the The Social Life of the Japanese Language: Cultural Discourses and Situated Practice (co-authored with Shigeko Okamoto, 2016). 
One of the first books to provide detailed empirical studies of aspects of the Japanese workplace based on naturally occurring data
Offers empirical findings on Japanese workplace practices in analytic frameworks that facilitate comparison with those of Western studies on workplace discourse
Significantly contributes to the cross-linguistic/cultural study of business discourse in the globalized context of the twenty-first century
Includes chapters on foreign-invested companies in Japan, and workplace socialization of recent graduates  – both critical areas which have been understudied.
One of the first books to provide detailed empirical studies of aspects of the Japanese workplace based on naturally occurring data
Offers empirical findings on Japanese workplace practices in analytic frameworks that facilitate comparison with those of Western studies on workplace discourse
Significantly contributes to the cross-linguistic/cultural study of business discourse in the globalized context of the twenty-first century
Includes chapters on foreign-invested companies in Japan, and workplace socialization of recent graduates  – both critical areas which have been understudied.

“This engaging collection of papers includes chapters from leading Japanese researchers in the area of sociopragmatics. The analyses provide valuable insights on a range of aspects of power, politeness and personae in Japanese intracultural and intercultural workplace interaction. Discourse analysts and pragmatics scholars, as well as those teaching courses in these areas, will find rich resources here to extend and deepen their understanding of how Japanese interlocutors negotiate these important dimensions of face-to-face interaction at work.” (Janet Holmes, Emeritus Professor in Linguistics and Associate Director, Language in the Workplace Project, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

“Japanese at Work is a timely and very welcome response to growing calls for workplace discourse research to expand beyond the Western, English-speaking world. The chapters offer exciting new treatments of topics with importance for the Japanese context and beyond (the interactional impact of bowing and other business etiquette, honorifics, identities and relational work), opening our eyes to novel ways of thinking about the influence of power, politeness and personae on everyday talk at work.” (Meredith Marra, Director of the Wellington Language in the Workplace Project, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)