Navigating Language in Parliamentary Practice

Auteur

Lidia Tanaka is currently Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Languages and Linguistics at La Trobe University, Australia, where she taught in the Japanese program for more than 20 years.

Texte du rabat

Tanaka in this book explores the language used in Japanese parliamentary interactions to shed light on the use of language as a tool by politicians to convince, negotiate, persuade, as well as deliver aggression and criticism.

Contenu

1 Introducing Japanese Parliamentary Discourse and Pragmatics 2 Politicians' Language: Some Preliminaries 3 Questions in The House of Representatives Meetings 4 Impoliteness in The House of Representative Meetings 5 Heckling and interruptions in The House of Representatives Meetings 6 Pronouns and Address terms in The House of Representative Meetings 7 Insights about Japanese Parliamentary Interactions