Strategies of Impoliteness in Japanese Spontaneous Talks

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_3766
dc.contributor.author	Calvetti Paolo
dc.title	Strategies of Impoliteness in Japanese Spontaneous Talks
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	If, on the one hand, Japanese language, with its richness of marked allomorphs used for honorifics, has been considered one of the most attractive languages to investigate the phenomenon of politeness, on the other hand, a very small number of studies have been devoted to Japanese impoliteness, most of them limited to BBSs’ (Bulletin Board System) chats on Internet. Interestingly, Japanese native speakers declare, in general, that their language has a very limited number of offensive expressions and that ‘impoliteness’ is not a characteristic of their mother tongue. I tried to analyse some samples of spontaneous conversations taken from YouTube and other multimedia repertoires, in order to detect the main strategies used in Japanese real conversations to cause offence or to show a threatening attitude toward the partner’s face. It seems possible to state that, notwithstanding the different ‘cultural’ peculiarities, impoliteness shows, also in Japanese, a set of strategies common to other languages and that impoliteness, in terms of morphology, is not a mirror counterpart of keigo.
dc.relation.ispartof	Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Linguistics and Language Education
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-07-03
dc.dateAccepted	2020-05-14
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-02-21
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-429-5/strategies-of-impoliteness-in-japanese-spontaneous/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-428-8/005
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8976
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9395
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-429-5
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-428-8
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Japanese impoliteness
dc.subject	Japanese impoliteness
dc.subject	Japanese phonetics
dc.subject	Japanese phonetics
dc.subject	Keigo
dc.subject	Keigo
dc.subject	Pragma-linguistics
dc.subject	Pragma-linguistics
dc.subject	Spontaneous talk
dc.subject	Spontaneous talk

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Strategies of Impoliteness in Japanese Spontaneous Talks

Paolo Calvetti Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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If, on the one hand, Japanese language, with its richness of marked allomorphs used for honorifics, has been considered one of the most attractive languages to investigate the phenomenon of politeness, on the other hand, a very small number of studies have been devoted to Japanese impoliteness, most of them limited to BBSs’ (Bulletin Board System) chats on Internet. Interestingly, Japanese native speakers declare, in general, that their language has a very limited number of offensive expressions and that ‘impoliteness’ is not a characteristic of their mother tongue. I tried to analyse some samples of spontaneous conversations taken from YouTube and other multimedia repertoires, in order to detect the main strategies used in Japanese real conversations to cause offence or to show a threatening attitude toward the partner’s face. It seems possible to state that, notwithstanding the different ‘cultural’ peculiarities, impoliteness shows, also in Japanese, a set of strategies common to other languages and that impoliteness, in terms of morphology, is not a mirror counterpart of keigo.

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July 3, 2020

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May 14, 2020

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Feb. 21, 2020

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978-88-6969-429-5

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978-88-6969-428-8

Keywords: Pragma-linguistics • Keigo • Japanese phonetics • Japanese impoliteness • Spontaneous talk

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