Online Apologies in Japanese

Online Apologies in Japanese

Diegoli, Eugenia

Brill

03/2025

214

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Inglês

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1 Introduction

?1?What is it to apologise?

?2?From form to function

?3?A brief introduction to pragmatics and discourse

?4?The choice of data

?5?Defining 'apology'

?6?Morphosemantic features of Japanese apologetic IFID?s

?7?Why 'apologies' in Japanese?

?8?Bringing together corpus linguistics and discourse studies

?9?The data source: Yahoo! Chiebukuro

?10?Research questions and aims

?11?Conclusions



2 Speech Acts, (Im)politeness and Norms

?1?From 'apologies' to (im)politeness

?2?Operationalising politeness

?3?Operationalising impoliteness

?4?(Im)politeness as implicature

?5?Brown and Levinson's 'universals' in language use

?6?Culturally determined (im)politeness

?7?The discursive approach to (im)politeness

?8?Conclusions



3 (Im)politeness in Computer-Mediated Discourse

?1?Pragmatics of Computer-Mediated Discourse

?2?Expectations and norms in Computer-Mediated Discourse

?3?Deceptive genres

?4?Speech acts in online settings

?5?Conclusions



4 Methodological Approaches to Speech Acts in Online Setting

?1?A closer look at discourse and pragmatics

?2?Corpus linguistics

?3?Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis

?4?Other viable approaches

?5?Conclusions



5 Description of Corpus Construction and Annotation

?1?Corpus construction

?2?Corpus description

?3?Limitations to the corpus construction

?4?Pragmatic annotation of the corpus

?5?Limitations to the corpus annotation

?6?Conclusions



6 The Multifunctionality of Japanese Apology-like Expressions

?1?I'm sorry, what?

?2?Pragmatic functions across the three IFID?s

?3?Comparison and visualisation of pragmatic functions

?4?Conclusions



7 The Apology Metadiscourse

?1?Why metadiscourse?

?2?Operationalising metadiscourse

?3?From metadiscourse to metacomments

?4?Other forms of reflexive awareness

?5?Drawbacks of metadiscourse

?6?Conclusions



8 Apology Strategies

?1?The steps required for a 'proper apology'

?2?The coding scheme

?3?Results

?4?Discussion

?5?Conclusions



9 The Role of Intensification and Downgraders

?1?Intensification

?2?Downgraders of the 'apology'

?3?Conclusions



10 What People are Apologising for

?1?Offence and morality

?2?Offence: a problematic notion

?3?Types of transgression

?4?'Apologies' and morality

?5?The apology tradeoff

?6?Conclusions



11 Conclusions

?1?Overview

?2?Findings

?3?General discussion

?4?Limitations

?5?What's next?

?6?So what?



Appendix1: Concordance corpus

Appendix2: Additional figures

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