Thanking and Politeness in Japanese

1. Introduction
Jun Ohashi

2. Review of Data Elicitation Methods
Jun Ohashi

3. Revealing Patterns: Descriptive Empirical Norms (Studies 1 and 2)
Jun Ohashi

4. What Japanese Native Speakers Actually Do in Thanking Episodes in Naturally Occurring Telephone Conversations
Jun Ohashi

5. Implications of the Studies in Relation to Teaching Japanese Language and Current Debate on Face and Politeness
Jun Ohashi

Keywords: Literature, Asian Literature, Asian Languages, Linguistics, general, Sociolinguistics, Japanese, Pragmatics