Online Apologies in Japanese /

Apologies are ubiquitous in contemporary societies, yet their meanings and functions are rarely straightforward. Online Apologies in Japanese provides a comprehensive account of how three Japanese expressions commonly considered apologetic ( gomen, su(m)imasen and mōshiwake arimasen ) work in a data...

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Main Author: Diegoli, Eugenia (Author)

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Language: English
Japanese

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Studies in Pragmatics.

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505 0 |t Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Conventions -- 1 Introduction -- 1 What is it to apologise? -- 2 From form to function -- 3 A brief introduction to pragmatics and discourse -- 4 The choice of data -- 5 Defining 'apology' -- 6 Morphosemantic features of Japanese apologetic IFID  s -- 7 Why 'apologies' in Japanese? -- 8 Bringing together corpus linguistics and discourse studies -- 9 The data source: Yahoo! Chiebukuro -- 10 Research questions and aims -- 11 Conclusions -- 2 Speech Acts, (Im)politeness and Norms -- 1 From 'apologies' to (im)politeness -- 2 Operationalising politeness -- 3 Operationalising impoliteness -- 4 (Im)politeness as implicature -- 5 Brown and Levinson's 'universals' in language use -- 6 Culturally determined (im)politeness -- 7 The discursive approach to (im)politeness -- 8 Conclusions -- 3 (Im)politeness in Computer-Mediated Discourse -- 1 Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Discourse -- 2 Expectations and norms in Computer-Mediated Discourse -- 3 Deceptive genres -- 4 Speech acts in online settings -- 5 Conclusions -- 4 Methodological Approaches to Speech Acts in Online Setting -- 1 A closer look at discourse and pragmatics -- 2 Corpus linguistics -- 3 Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis -- 4 Other viable approaches -- 5 Conclusions -- 5 Description of Corpus Construction and Annotation -- 1 Corpus construction -- 2 Corpus description -- 3 Limitations to the corpus construction -- 4 Pragmatic annotation of the corpus -- 5 Limitations to the corpus annotation -- 6 Conclusions -- 6 The Multifunctionality of Japanese Apology-like Expressions -- 1 I'm sorry, what? -- 2 Pragmatic functions across the three IFID  s -- 3 Comparison and visualisation of pragmatic functions -- 4 Conclusions -- 7 The Apology Metadiscourse -- 1 Why metadiscourse? -- 2 Operationalising metadiscourse -- 3 From metadiscourse to metacomments -- 4 Other forms of reflexive awareness -- 5 Drawbacks of metadiscourse -- 6 Conclusions -- 8 Apology Strategies -- 1 The steps required for a 'proper apology' -- 2 The coding scheme -- 3 Results -- 4 Discussion -- 5 Conclusions -- 9 The Role of Intensification and Downgraders -- 1 Intensification -- 2 Downgraders of the 'apology' -- 3 Conclusions -- 10 What People are Apologising for -- 1 Offence and morality -- 2 Offence: a problematic notion -- 3 Types of transgression -- 4 'Apologies' and morality -- 5 The apology tradeoff -- 6 Conclusions -- 11 Conclusions -- 1 Overview -- 2 Findings -- 3 General discussion -- 4 Limitations -- 5 What's next? -- 6 So what? -- Appendix1: Concordance corpus -- Appendix2: Additional figures -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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