Japanese at Work

Japanese at Work: Politeness, Power, and Personae in Japanese Workplace Discourse, 1st Edition, is an academic anthology that empirically explores how speakers deploy linguistic resources across diverse workplaces in Japan. The collection examines how professionals inhabit workplace roles while accomplishing work-oriented communicative goals.

Contributors evaluate how occupational roles reflect gender dynamics, interpersonal familiarity, and speaker orientation to normative structures of power and politeness. Broad areas of inquiry include corporate socialization, task accomplishment, and identity construction, such as how new employee orientations socialize recruits to act, feel, and think as shakaijin.

This volume is designed for researchers studying workplace discourse and Japanese sociolinguistics. It also offers instructional support for Japanese language educators and adult learners.