Navigating Language in Parliamentary Practice
Between Courtesy and Conflict in Japan
Series: Routledge Research in Pragmatics;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 31 March 2025
- ISBN 9781032897653
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 570 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 Illustrations, black & white; 4 Line drawings, black & white; 14 Tables, black & white 768
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Short description:
Tanaka in this book explores the language used in Japanese parliamentary interactions to shed light on the use of language as a tool by politicians to convince, negotiate, persuade, as well as deliver aggression and criticism.
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Tanaka explores the language used in Japanese parliamentary interactions to shed light on the use of language as a tool by politicians to convince, negotiate, persuade, as well as deliver aggression and criticism. By looking at the speech of politicians in the parliament of Japan, Tanaka demonstrates the unbreakable link between language and politics.
Despite the association of Japan as a society in which linguistic politeness is paramount, Tanaka highlights the many examples of impoliteness in parliament and illustrates the idea that Japanese parliamentarians use language strategically to accomplish their political agenda. Analysis of questions and answers in committee meetings demonstrate that regardless of which party they belong to, those in opposition use the most antagonistic strategies. The book also shows the ways in which politicians deliver face-attacks and demonstrates that impoliteness can be delivered without insults or open aggression, using extremely polite language, honorifics, or sarcasm and irony.
Lastly, the book also reveals that face-attacks are sent by members of both the government and opposition. As a book that explores the commonly overlooked phenomenon of impoliteness in Japan in the context of parliamentary interactions, it is a valuable resource for researchers and academics in the field of pragmatics and discourse analysis as well as a viable resource for undergraduate and graduate students.
MoreTable of Contents:
1 Introducing Japanese parliamentary discourse and pragmatics; 2 Politicians’ language: Some preliminaries; 3 Questions in The House of Representatives meetings; 4 Impoliteness in The House of Representative meetings; 5 Heckling and interruptions in The House of Representatives meetings; 6 Pronouns and address terms in The House of Representative meetings; 7 Insights about Japanese Parliamentary interactions
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