Explorations in Japanese sociolinguistics

1. 1. Japanese Sociolinguistics - with Special Reference to Western Research, p1
 2. 1.1. Japanese language and society, p1
 3. 1.2. Encoding social organization, p4
 4. 1.3. Social variation, p8
 5. 1.4. Language attitudes, p19
 6. 1.5. Contact between Japanese and other languages in sociolinguistic perspective, p24
 7. 1.6. Other topics in Japanese sociolinguistics, p31
 8. 1.7. Conclusion, p32
 9. 2. The Ethnography of Ritual and Address at a Japanese Wedding Reception, p33
 10. 2.1. The reception: setting, participants, activities and functions, p33
 11. 2.2. The linguistic components of ritual, p37
 12. 2.3. Hierarchical and collective signals: the contextual dynamics of designatory forms, p47
 13. 2.4. A concluding note, p55
 14. 3. Speaking of Giving: The Pragmatics of Japanese Donatory Verbs, p57
 15. 4. Cross-Cultural Contrasts, p79
 16. 4.1. Pitch, politeness and sexual role, p79
 17. 4.2. Semiotic schism in Japanese-Western interaction, p96
 18. Appendix: Background notes on Japanese concepts of family and marriage, p119
 19. Notes, p121
 20. References, p135
 21. List of Figures, Tables, Diagrams
 22. Fig.1 Simple flowchart of Japanese suffixes of address and reference, p7
 23. Fig.2 The performance and relationships of participants at the wedding reception, p36
 24. Fig.3 Corporate identification in designatory markers for the groom, p53
 25. Fig.4 Semiotic schism, p97
 26. Table 1. A comparison of speech giver\'s speech acts, p41
 27. Table 2. Apologetic formulae occurring at the reception, p44
 28. Table 3. Designatory markers for the groom occurring at the reception, p53
 29. Table 4. The phonational ranges of the subjects, p86
 30. Table 5. The fundamental frequency in Hz of Japanese and English politeness formulae obtained by pitch meter at the beginning and end of each utterance, p89
 31. Table 6. The fundamental frequency in Hz of Japanese and English politeness formulae obtained by spectographic analysis at the peak and end of each utterance, p89
 32. Diagram 1. Donatory forms where G is not the speaker nor belongs to the speaker\'s ingroup, p58
 33. Diagram 2. Donatory forms where G is the speaker or in the speaker\'s group, p60
 34. Diagram 3. Donatory forms where R is the speaker or in the speaker\'s ingroup, p63
 35. Diagram 4. Scales of implicational deference where the giver is the speaker, p76