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Title:
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Politeness Implicature in Japanese: A metalinguistic approach
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Author:
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Michael Haugh
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Email:
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Homepage:
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http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/lal/staff/content_michael_haugh.html
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Degree Awarded:
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The University of Queensland
, School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies
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Degree Date:
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2003
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Pragmatics
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Subject Language(s):
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Japanese
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Director(s):
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Nanette Gottlieb
Yasuko Obana
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Abstract:
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The notions of politeness and implicature are key concepts in the field of pragmatics, yet the intersection between them has received only a minimal amount of attention. The aim of this thesis is thus to investigate this relationship, in particular, the way in which implicatures give rise to politeness, the term “politeness implicature” being used to refer to this phenomenon. A metalinguistic approach is proposed for this analysis of politeness implicatures. The purpose of the metalanguage is to provide a set of tools for the analysis and explication of politeness implicature in Japanese, and to enable comparisons with other languages such as English. Since metalanguages have mainly been constructed in semantic research to date, this study represents one of the first attempts to utilise a metalinguistic approach in analysing pragmatic phenomena (such as politeness implicature). Building upon a review of key literature on politeness and implicature, the notion of politeness implicature is defined as something else implied in addition to what is literally said, which shows the speaker thinks good of others or does not think too highly of him/herself. The different ways in which implying may generate politeness are discussed using examples of politeness implicature gathered from a variety of different sources in Japanese. A number of phenomena closely related to politeness implicature also emerge from this discussion, and draw attention to areas that will require further investigation if a comprehensive theory of politeness implicature is to be constructed. While politeness implicatures are indeed a complex phenomenon, the metalinguistic approach employed in deconstructing examples of them demonstrates that they can still be explained, at least to some extent, in fairly simple terms.
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