Online Apologies in Japanese /

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)

Format: eBook

Language: English
Japanese

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

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

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Asian Studies.
Philosophy.

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Call Number: DS501

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.