Japanese at Work

Zusatztext

One of the first books to provide detailed empirical studies of aspects of the Japanese workplace based on naturally occurring data Offers empirical findings on Japanese workplace practices in analytic frameworks that facilitate comparison with those of Western studies on workplace discourse Significantly contributes to the cross-linguistic/cultural study of business discourse in the globalized context of the twenty-first century Includes chapters on foreign-invested companies in Japan, and workplace socialization of recent graduates  - both critical areas which have been understudied.

Autorenportrait

Haruko Minegishi Cook is Professor of Japanese at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. Her main research interests include language socialization, discourse analysis, and pragmatics. She has published widely on Japanese sentence-final particles and honorifics in edited volumes and major journals. Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, USA. She is a specialist in Japanese language, society and culture, with an emphasis on the interaction between ideology and practice. 

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