Dedication

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Dedication vii
4. Foreword xi
5. Acknowledgement xv
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I. Grammar
8. Chapter 1. Reason-coding in Japanese 17
9. Chapter 2. Amari/anmari/anma and totemo/tottemo in history and discourse 49
10. Chapter 3. The form and meaning of the dangling mitaina construction in a network of constructions 75
11. Chapter 4. “Late projectability” of Japanese turns revisited 99
12. Part II. Interaction
13. Chapter 5. Superiors’ directives in the Japanese workplace 125
14. Chapter 6. Negotiating entitlement in Japanese 149
15. Chapter 7. From subjectivity to intersubjectivity 173
16. Chapter 8. Ne as an “impoliteness” (“detachment”) marker? 197
17. Part III. Culture
18. Chapter 9. Genre and the cultural realms of taste in Japanese, Korean, and U.S. online recipes 219
19. Chapter 10. Metapragmatic discourse in self-help books on Japanese women’s speech 245
20. Chapter 11. Linguistic nationalism and fictional deception 267
21. Chapter 12. How does a non-native Japanese literary writer dissimulate and diversify the Japanese language? 289
22. Subject index 309
23. Name index 311