Talking about children with in-laws: Negotiation of membership and epistemic status in Japanese family conversation
Discourse Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Text and Talk
Published online on February 09, 2026
Abstract
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Talking about children in an extended-family setting can sometimes be challenging in Japanese culture due to the highly developed system of grammatical marking for epistemic stance. Parents of a child typically hold epistemic authority regarding the child,...
Talking about children in an extended-family setting can sometimes be challenging in Japanese culture due to the highly developed system of grammatical marking for epistemic stance. Parents of a child typically hold epistemic authority regarding the child,...