Informality in Japanese: Getting close in a formal context
Edited by Haruko Minegishi Cook and Momoko Nakamura
Informality is essential in human interaction as it fulfills the basic communicative need to connect with others. When and how do speakers of Japanese construct informality within so-called “formal” contexts and why do they do so? By going beyond the previous studies on speech style in Japanese,… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 357] 2027. vi, 273 pp. + index