Japanese at Work

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.

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Bowing Incorrectly: Aesthetic labor and expert knowledge in Japanese business etiquette training; Cynthia Dickel Dunn.- Chapter 2. Socialization to acting, feeling, and thinking as shakaijin: New employee orientations in a Japanese company; Haruko Minegishi Cook.- Chapter 3. Representing the Japanese workplace: Linguistic strategies for getting the work done; Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith.- Chapter 4. Sarariiman and the performance of masculinities at work: An analysis of interactions at business meetings at a multinational corporation in Japan; Junko Saito.- Chapter 5. Constructing identity in the Japanese workplace through dialectal and honorific shifts; Andrew Barke.- Chapter 6. Humor and laughter in Japanese business meetings; Kazuyo Murata.- Chapter 7. Directives in Japanese workplace discourse; Naomi Geyer.- Chapter 8. Terms of address and identity in American-Japanese workplace interaction; Stephen J. Moody.