Gentlemanly gender? Japanese men's use of clause-final politeness in casual conversations1

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ID3636635
AutoresCindi L Sturtzsreetharan (0000-0001-7528-8991)
Ano2006
Volume10
Fascículo1
Páginas70-92
Data de publicação2006-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Sociolinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1360-6441 • E-ISSN: 1467-9841
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1360-6441.2006.00318.x
OpenAlexW2002722354
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas26

Much of the Japanese language and gender literature discusses the differential use of polite language by women and men. The exchange of non-reciprocal clause-final speech levels is typically taken as a sign that interlocutors are of unequal social status.Cook (1998)has shown how Japanese speakers manipulate the use of clause-final politeness in order to index particular stances in specific moments of ongoing verbal interaction. Using naturally occurring all-male informal conversations, this paper examines the use of clause-final politeness as marked by the presence or absence of the verb ending ∼masu[+politeness] by Japanese men in the Kansai (Western) region. The data provide a deeper understanding into how men exploit linguistic structures such as politeness, at the everyday local level, to create, maintain, and manage particular identities and/or stances

Casual · Dependent clause · Linguistics · Politeness · Political science · Reciprocal · Sentence · Sociology · Verb · Gender Studies in Language · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Psychology · Law · Philosophy