Japanese at Work Politeness, Power, and Personae in Japanese Workplace Discourse /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cook, Haruko Minegishi (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Shibamoto-Smith, Janet S. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Communicating in Professions and Organizations
• Subjects: Sociolinguistics.; Japanese language.; Pragmatics.; Multilingualism.; Discourse analysis.; Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Japanese.; Discourse Analysis.; Self and Identity.

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 interpers...