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“Japanese at Work is a timely and very welcome response to growing calls for workplace discourse research to expand beyond the Western, English-speaking world. Discourse analysts and pragmatics scholars, as well as those teaching courses in these areas, will find rich resources here to extend and deepen their understanding of how Japanese interlocutors negotiate these important dimensions of face-to-face interaction at work.” (Janet Holmes, Emeritus Professor in Linguistics and Associate Director, Language in the Workplace Project, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) The analyses provide valuable insights on a range of aspects of power, politeness and personae in Japanese intracultural and intercultural workplace interaction. 48 (1), February, 2019) “This engaging collection of papers includes chapters from leading Japanese researchers in the area of sociopragmatics. … Japanese at work makes a timely, needed contribution to the field.” (Hannah E. Ali is also an Indian (Ram san wa Indojin desu. “Japanese at work is a valuable collection of studies that engage with not only linguistic practice in the workplace, but the ways in which workers are socialized into those practices. In the next example, I am going to Japan with my mother (watashi wa haha to nihon e ikimasu).