Re-examination of yoroshiku onegaishimasu—The routine formula as the linguistic implementation of one's tachiba-role

Obana, Yasuko

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2012.06.020

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“…The expression of yorošiku onegaišimasu in the Japanese data in this research could be interpreted as a request or as confirmation of a request suggested by Y. Obana (2012).…”

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Request Strategies in Kazakh and Japanese: A Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Analysis

Ninomiya¹,

Shadayeva²

2020

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This study investigated how native speakers of Kazakh and Japanese realize the speech act of request. Ten native speakers of Kazakh and ten native speakers of Japanese participated in the study. Data was obtained using an open role play, consisting of nine request situations. The Japanese participants used indirect strategies for someone equal in status more than the Kazakh participants: mostly when the imposition's ranking was high and when the social distance between a requester and the requestee was near. When this study compared the unspecified request strategies, the Japanese used the anonymous request strategies more frequently than the Kazakhs. On the other hand, the Kazakh participants made use of Imperative more than the Japanese participants. This result showed that the use of Imperative in Kazakh society is more allowable than in Japanese society. Benefactive auxiliary verbs of the Japanese language had a relation to request strategies.

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“…The expression of yorošiku onegaišimasu in the Japanese data in this research could be interpreted as a request or as confirmation of a request suggested by Y. Obana (2012).…”

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confidence: 73%

“…Y. Obana (2012) stated that the expression of yorošiku onegaišimasu was used not only as request but as a greeting and confirmation of a request. The expression of yorošiku onegaišimasu in the Japanese data in this research could be interpreted as a request or as confirmation of a request suggested by Y.…”

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Request Strategies in Kazakh and Japanese: A Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Analysis

Ninomiya¹,

Shadayeva²

2020

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“…This task-role is also recognised by all the other members of the group, who identify themselves as recipients of the organiser's task-role (another Task-based Role), and thus deliver an acceptable performance of their role. The organiser's task-role is linguistically implemented, for example, in polite imperative forms in request as long as the content of the request is within the domain of his/her tasks as the organiser (Haugh and Obana 2011;Obana 2012aObana , 2012b. Other examples of Task-based Roles are observed in duties assigned to a chairperson, a mentor and a group leader to fulfil their responsibilities in situations which foreground their task-roles.…”

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“…In the data, three pairs never shift their speech level except when uttering this formula to confirm the request before closing the conversation. This formula is a well-established ritual, meaning 'I wish to leave the decision (or the requested job) to you', showing the speaker's humble stance towards the other (Obana 2012b). When this formula is used at the end of the request, it indicates the confirmation of the request and at the same time shows the speaker's gratefulness for the other's acceptance of the request.…”

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Speech level shifts in Japanese

Obana¹

2022

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The present paper analyses speech level shifts in Japanese from a different perspective. By applying Symbolic InteractionistRole Theory, speech level shifts are categorised as the linguistic realisation of aninteractional role, or ‘dissociative role’ Icall in this paper. Dissociative roles are improvised identities, which occur when the speaker perceives a psychological change in relation to the other participant in the on-going interaction. Plus-level shifts (shifts from plain to polite forms,masu/desu) are triggered when the speaker experiences cautious, attentive, thoughtful and/or grateful feelings at a certaintime of interaction, which conforms to the original nature of honorifics. This prompts a dissociative role which creates a certain psychological distance between this role and the other interactant. On the other hand, minus-level shifts (shifts frommasu/desuforms to plain forms) are the implementation of the speaker’s another dissociative role, which is assimilated with the other interactant, giving rise to empathy or drawing the other into the speaker’s world. Whether plus or minus level shifts occur, the interactants’social roles, i.e.,their original roles when the situation is defined, continue to exist throughout the discourse. The interactants are fully aware of their social roles such as teacher and student, friends, family members, and senior and junior in company(= Institutional Roles in this paper). However, when an Improvised Role is created, it is forwarded to the on-going interaction and linguistically implemented as a speech level shift.This paper also clarifies that both speech level shifts and the so-called ‘conventional’honorifics are situationally determined, and that they are not separate entities but the two ends of continuum by examining the features they share from the viewpoint of ‘roles’.

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An emerging role-identity and honorifics: A longitudinal study of email exchanges in a Japanese community

Ōhashi

2018

Journal of Pragmatics

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Re-examination of yoroshiku onegaishimasu—The routine formula as the linguistic implementation of one's tachiba-role

Cited by 9 publications

References 9 publications

Request Strategies in Kazakh and Japanese: A Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Analysis

Request Strategies in Kazakh and Japanese: A Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Analysis

Speech level shifts in Japanese

An emerging role-identity and honorifics: A longitudinal study of email exchanges in a Japanese community

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