Exploring Japaneseness Book

	Introduction
1	Guideposts for Exploring Japaneseness	3
2	Uchi and Soto as Cultural and Linguistic Metaphors	29
3	The Sociocultural Discourse of Poetry: Japanese Moral and Personal Development as Reflected in Elementary School Textbooks	67
4	Communications as Connections Between Different Japanese Realms: Kotsu and the Case of Children's Illustrated Books	89
5	Discourse and Cultural Attitudes: Japanese Imperial Honorifics and the Open Society	105
6	Aisatsu: Ritualized Politeness as Sociopolitical and Economic Management in Japan	121
7	The Great Hanshin Earthquake: The Japanese Response	137
8	Through the Ideological Filter: Japanese Translations of a Western News Source	147
9	Deconstructing the Japanese National Discourse: Laymen's Beliefs and Ideology	169
10	Koreans - A Mistreated Minority in Japan: Hopes and Challenges for Japan's True Internationalization	183
11	Nikkei Brazilians in Japan: The Ideology and Symbolic Context Faced by Children of This New Ethnic Minority	197
12	Sources of Emotion in Japanese Comics: Da, Nan(i), and the Rhetoric of Futaku	225
13	Narrative as a Reflection of Culture and Consciousness: Developmental Aspects	241
14	The Impact of English on the Japanese Language	263
15	Japan's Attempted Enactments of Western Debate Practice in the 16th and the 19th Centuries	277
16	Japanese Identities in Written Communication: Politics and Discourses	293
17	Frames in American and Japanese Political Discourse	317
18	Speech Act Realization Patterns of Japanese Social Refusal: The Question Strategy	343
19	Japaneseness Manifested in Apology Styles	357
20	Vagueness Is Not Always Polite: Defensive Concession in Japanese Everyday Discourse	369
21	Japanese Advertising Discourse: Reconstructing Images	385
22	TV Commercials as Cultural Performance: The Case of Japan	399
23	Projecting Peer Approval in Advertising: Japan versus U.S. Seventeen Magazine	413
24	Global and Local in Computer-Mediated Communication: A Japanese Newsgroup	425
	Index	443
	About the Contributors	457