Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), 2015
Unlike the short and specific advice of service-encounters, advice in counselling settings is lon... more Unlike the short and specific advice of service-encounters, advice in counselling settings is longer and more complex. In these interactions, it is known that advice is initially resisted in all languages. Scholars have tried to explain this phenomenon in terms of ‘face loss’ (Brown and Levinson 1987; Goldsmith 1992, 1994; Hinkel 1994; Murakami 1994); premature delivery (Heritage and Sefi 1992); the inappropriateness of the advisors (Jefferson and Lee 1992); or discrepancies in the interpretation of a problem (Murakami 1994). One of the difficulties in counselling or therapeutic settings is that the giving of advice in these interactions is a ‘process’ that is long and complex. In order to understand advice resistance, it is essential, first and foremost, to identify the characteristics of advice and how it is delivered. The present analysis of Japanese radio phone-in programs focuses on advice in order to identify its formal characteristics and also to try to understand the factors...
Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), 2006
Despite interviewers having a wide range of strategies to elicit talk, English language interview... more Despite interviewers having a wide range of strategies to elicit talk, English language interviewers overwhelmingly use syntactic questions. In contrast, most turns in Japanese semi-formal television interviews end in non-interrogative forms, and other methods are used to achieve smooth turn yielding. This study looks at the interviewers’ turns and examines how interviewees recognize turn-yielding. It argues that interviewers prefer using interviewing strategies other than canonical question forms to avoid any possible FTA (face threatening act).
List of Tables & Figures List of Abbreviations and Conventions List of Data Transcription Con... more List of Tables & Figures List of Abbreviations and Conventions List of Data Transcription Conventions Romanization of Japanese Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Japanese Questions and Interrogativity 3. Establishing Topics and Eliciting Talk: Questions in Television Interviews 4. Information Collection and Footing: Questions in Radio Phone-in Programs 5. Nourishing the Friendship: Questions in Friends' Talk 6. Categorizing, Introducing and Maintaining Topical Talk: Questions in Unacquainted Interactions 7. Questions in Japanese Discourse: Discussion and Conclusion References Index
This study analyses four women’s speech from Kobe who were interviewed by the same researcher in ... more This study analyses four women’s speech from Kobe who were interviewed by the same researcher in 1989 and in 2000. We focused on highly indexical pragmatic youth language features (discourse markers and end-rising intonation) to understand about societal pressures that young women in Japan face when transitioning into adulthood. The analysis reveals a complex picture; some women use them more as time goes by, while others use them less. The vast ethnographic information helps us to understand their persona style (Eckert 2008), and to have an insight into their linguistic capital (Bourdieu and Boltanski 1978, Woolard 2008).
Language change across the lifespan is relatively underexplored in sociolinguistics. While studie... more Language change across the lifespan is relatively underexplored in sociolinguistics. While studies of individuals’ language across life stages are often considered to complement large scale studies of community-level language change, this study aims to explore how changes to family environment and social mobility interact with individual speakers’ stylistic practice across life stages. It examines ethnographic interviews of five women, originally from the same area in western Japan, the same high school, and similar socio-economic background, conducted by a single researcher eleven years apart. The chronological and inter-participant comparisons reveal a complex pattern of stylistic practice and stance taking as the women share stories about career, family and relationships with the researcher. The study also discusses audience design in language variation and explores how the participants utilise their discursive repertoires in their interaction with the researcher, whose backgroun...
Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), 2015
Unlike the short and specific advice of service-encounters, advice in counselling settings is lon... more Unlike the short and specific advice of service-encounters, advice in counselling settings is longer and more complex. In these interactions, it is known that advice is initially resisted in all languages. Scholars have tried to explain this phenomenon in terms of ‘face loss’ (Brown and Levinson 1987; Goldsmith 1992, 1994; Hinkel 1994; Murakami 1994); premature delivery (Heritage and Sefi 1992); the inappropriateness of the advisors (Jefferson and Lee 1992); or discrepancies in the interpretation of a problem (Murakami 1994). One of the difficulties in counselling or therapeutic settings is that the giving of advice in these interactions is a ‘process’ that is long and complex. In order to understand advice resistance, it is essential, first and foremost, to identify the characteristics of advice and how it is delivered. The present analysis of Japanese radio phone-in programs focuses on advice in order to identify its formal characteristics and also to try to understand the factors...
Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), 2006
Despite interviewers having a wide range of strategies to elicit talk, English language interview... more Despite interviewers having a wide range of strategies to elicit talk, English language interviewers overwhelmingly use syntactic questions. In contrast, most turns in Japanese semi-formal television interviews end in non-interrogative forms, and other methods are used to achieve smooth turn yielding. This study looks at the interviewers’ turns and examines how interviewees recognize turn-yielding. It argues that interviewers prefer using interviewing strategies other than canonical question forms to avoid any possible FTA (face threatening act).
List of Tables & Figures List of Abbreviations and Conventions List of Data Transcription Con... more List of Tables & Figures List of Abbreviations and Conventions List of Data Transcription Conventions Romanization of Japanese Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Japanese Questions and Interrogativity 3. Establishing Topics and Eliciting Talk: Questions in Television Interviews 4. Information Collection and Footing: Questions in Radio Phone-in Programs 5. Nourishing the Friendship: Questions in Friends' Talk 6. Categorizing, Introducing and Maintaining Topical Talk: Questions in Unacquainted Interactions 7. Questions in Japanese Discourse: Discussion and Conclusion References Index
This study analyses four women’s speech from Kobe who were interviewed by the same researcher in ... more This study analyses four women’s speech from Kobe who were interviewed by the same researcher in 1989 and in 2000. We focused on highly indexical pragmatic youth language features (discourse markers and end-rising intonation) to understand about societal pressures that young women in Japan face when transitioning into adulthood. The analysis reveals a complex picture; some women use them more as time goes by, while others use them less. The vast ethnographic information helps us to understand their persona style (Eckert 2008), and to have an insight into their linguistic capital (Bourdieu and Boltanski 1978, Woolard 2008).
Language change across the lifespan is relatively underexplored in sociolinguistics. While studie... more Language change across the lifespan is relatively underexplored in sociolinguistics. While studies of individuals’ language across life stages are often considered to complement large scale studies of community-level language change, this study aims to explore how changes to family environment and social mobility interact with individual speakers’ stylistic practice across life stages. It examines ethnographic interviews of five women, originally from the same area in western Japan, the same high school, and similar socio-economic background, conducted by a single researcher eleven years apart. The chronological and inter-participant comparisons reveal a complex pattern of stylistic practice and stance taking as the women share stories about career, family and relationships with the researcher. The study also discusses audience design in language variation and explores how the participants utilise their discursive repertoires in their interaction with the researcher, whose backgroun...
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