Vol. 6 No. 1 (2021): Special Issue: Linguistic impoliteness in a polite society: Ideology and practice in Japanese spoken and written discourse

Guest Editors: Haruko Minegishi Cook and Momoko Nakamura

 

Introduction

Linguistic impoliteness in a polite society

Ideology and practice in Japanese spoken and written discourse Introduction

Haruko Minegishi Cook, Momoko Nakamura

1–8

 

Articles

The indexical regimentation of a male youth style in Japanese

Two approaches of metapragmatic discourse on a Q&A website

Momoko Nakamura

9–37

 

Your politeness is my impoliteness

Variable understandings of the grammar and indexical meanings of honorifics

Shigeko Okamoto

39–64

 

Impoliteness and hypermasculine language in Japanese shock advertising

Satoko Suzuki

65–85

 

Friendly or condescending?

Negotiating appropriateness in online discourse on medical practitioners’ non-use of honorifics

Naomi Geyer

87–108

 

Referential and non-referential (im)politeness

The trainer’s speech in a new employee orientation in a Japanese company

Haruko Minegishi Cook

109–134