Thanking and Politeness in Japanese: Balancing Acts in Interaction

By Jun Ohashi

Book Overview

This book synthesizes previous work on thanking, politeness and Japanese pragmatics and crystallises the theoretical underpinnings of thanking, how it is realized linguistically and the social meaning and significance of this aspect of Japanese communication.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134943616X
• ISBN13: 9781349436163
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"