Download or read book Linguistic Tactics and Strategies of Marginalization in Japanese written by Judit Kroo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book brings together studies on different aspects of marginalization in Japanese, creating a framework for studying marginalization which can also be applied in other linguistic and international contexts. The chapters in this book look at both marginalization of others and self-marginalization, examining the pragmatic strategies used to achieve marginalization, and investigating situations where it acts as an agentive tactic of speakers, in addition to a strategy of broader social structures. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, pragmatics, linguistic anthropology, and East Asian languages and cultures.