spoken japanese data resource

Recent data of spoken Japanese | Tom Bloor | October 9th, 2000

This might be of interest to some list members. Incidentally, Japan based participants might consider joining JASFL, which seems to be a worthwhile organization.

Tom

Subject: Recent data of spoken Japanese

Dear Sysflingers,

This is not directly connected with SFL, but I'm sure there are people who want to have the most recent data of spoken Japanese. Our group, politeness research group, recently published a report covering 209 pages, based on the symposium held at AILA'99, Tokyo, under the title of "The Positive Politeness Trend in Recent Japanese". The main focus of our research is to find how different the concept of politeness is in English and Japanese and how it is realized linguistically. The report consists of the English papers delivered at AILA, the Japanese papers written afterwards, and the Japanese data collected and analyzed for this project.

The data include:

(1) Questionnaire and the result about the linguistic awareness of young Japanese women;

(2) Conversations among a professor and her students;

(3) Five TV talk shows, two in 1981-82 and three in 1996, each with an interviewer and an interviewee;

(4) TV commercials broadcast by one station for 24 hours in 1999; and

(5) Questionnaire about an expression popular among young people.

I will send you a copy if you email me your name and address. If you don't mind, please tell me how you are going to use it. Thank you.

Motoko Hori

Secretary of Japan Association of Systemic Functional Linguistics (JASFL).

Thomas Bloor

Re: New book on Japanese politeness | Tom Bloor | October 25th, 2000

Fukushima, S (2000) Requests and Culture: Politeness in English and Japanese, Bern: Peter Lang.

ISBN: 3-9-6765-30-X
US-ISBN: 0-8204-5062-6
Cost: 30 pounds

Tom Bloor