Style Shifting in Japanese

Abstract

1. Acknowledgements 2. The messy reality of style shifting (by Jones, Kimberly) 3. Style shifts in Japanese academic consultations (by Minegishi Cook, Haruko) 4. Interpersonal functions of style shift: The use of plain and masu forms in faculty meetings (by Geyer, Naomi) 5. Speech style shift as an interactional discourse strategy: The use and non-use of desu/-masu in Japanese conversational interviews (by Ikuta, Shoko) 6. Playing with multiple voices: Emotivity and creativity in Japanese style mixture (by Maynard, Senko K.) 7. Riyuu 'Reason' for nai desu and other semi-polite forms (by Hudson, Mutsuko Endo) 8. Masen or nai desu - That is the question: A case study into Japanese conversational discourse (by Uehara, Satoshi) 9. The power of femininity: Can Japanese gender variation signify contradictory social meanings? (by Matsugu, Yuka) 10. Tuning speech style and persona (by Matsumoto, Yoshiko) 11. Speech style and the use of regional (Yamaguchi) and Standard Japanese in conversations (by Okamoto, Shigeko) 12. Involved speech style and deictic management of spatio-temporal and textual reference: A case of ko/so-deictics in Japanese (by Kataoka, Kuniyoshi) 13. Variation in prosodic focus of the Japanese negative nai: Issues of language specificity, interactive style, and social situations (by Takano, Shoji) 14. Name index 15. Subject index