PREFACE

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. FOREWORD: SITUATED MEANING IX
4. PREFACE XIII
5. NOTE ON ROMANIZATION XV
6. KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS AND ORTHOGRAPHIC CONVENTIONS XVII
7. CONTRIBUTORS XIX
8. PART ONE. Indexing Self and Social Context
9. Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION : UCHI/SOTO: CHALLENGING OUR CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF SELF, SOCIAL ORDER, AND LANGUAGE 3
10. Chapter 2. THE TERMS UCHI ΑΝD SOTO AS WINDOWS ON A WORLD 38
11. Chapter 3. A MOVABLE SELF: THE LINGUISTIC INDEXING OF UCHI AND SOTO 73
12. Chapter 4. INDEXING HIERARCHY THROUGH JAPANESE GENDER RELATIONS 88
13. Chapter 5. UCHI/SOTO: CHOICES IN DIRECTIVE SPEECH ACTS IN JAPANESE 113
14. Chapter 6. INDEXING SELF AND SOCIETY IN JAPANESE FAMILY ORGANIZATION 143
15. PART TWO. Failure to Index: Boundary Disintegration and Social Breakdown
16. Chapter 7. UCHI NO KAISHA: COMPANY AS FAMILY? 169
17. Chapter 8. THE BATTLE TO BELONG: SELF-SACRIFICE AND SELF-FULFILLMENT IN THE JAPANESE FAMILY ENTERPRISE 192
18. Chapter 9. WHEN UCHI AND SOTO FELL SILENT IN THE NIGHT: SHIFTING BOUNDARIES IN SHIGA NAOYA’S “THE RAZOR” 209
19. Chapter 10. UCHI/SOTO: AUTHORITY AND INTIMACY, HIERARCHY AND SOLIDARITY IN JAPAN 223
20. PART THREE. Language as a Form of Life: Clines of Knowledge as Clines of Person
21. Chapter 11. UCHI/SOTO: TI P OF A SEMIOTIC ICEBERG? ‚INSIDE‘ AND ‚OUTSIDE‘ KNOWLEDGE IN THE GRAMMAR OF JAPANESE 247
22. INDEX 295