1st Edition
Navigating Language in Parliamentary Practice Between Courtesy and Conflict in Japan
By Lidia Tanaka
Copyright 2025
224 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
224 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
224 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Lidia Tanaka is currently Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Languages and Linguistics at La Trobe University, Australia, where she taught in the Japanese program for more than 20 years.
