Linguistic Tactics and Strategies of Marginalization in Japanese

Download or read book Linguistic Tactics and Strategies of Marginalization in Japanese written by Judit Kroo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book brings together studies on different aspects of marginalization in Japanese, creating a framework for studying marginalization which can also be applied in other linguistic and international contexts. The chapters in this book look at both marginalization of others and self-marginalization, examining the pragmatic strategies used to achieve marginalization, and investigating situations where it acts as an agentive tactic of speakers, in addition to a strategy of broader social structures. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, pragmatics, linguistic anthropology, and East Asian languages and cultures.