Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. The messy reality of style shifting 1
5. Style shifts in Japanese academic consultations 9
6. Interpersonal functions of style shift 39
7. Speech style shift as an interactional discourse strategy 71
8. Playing with multiple voices 91
9. Riyuu ‘Reason’ for nai desu and other semi-polite forms 131
10. Masen or nai desu – That is the question 161
11. The power of femininity 185
12. Tuning speech style and persona 213
13. Speech style and the use of regional (Yamaguchi) and Standard Japanese in conversations 229
14. “Involved” speech style and deictic management of spatio-temporal and textual reference: A case of ko/so -deictics in Japanese 251
15. Variation in prosodic focus of the Japanese negative nai 285
16. Name index 329
17. Subject index 333