Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Romanization -- Introduction: Japanese Communication -- 1. The Context of Japanese Communication -- 1. Cultural Myth, Self, and Society -- 2. Relationality and Communication -- 3. Competing Orientations within Relationality -- 4. Relationality Cues in the Sociocultural Context of Japan -- 5. Relationality and the Concept of Self -- 2. Japanese Language in Context -- 6. Styles and Varieties of the Japanese Language: Responding to Social Needs -- 7. Japanese Phrases: Expressing Emotion and Speaker's Attitude -- 8. Japanese Sentence Structure: Grammar in Context -- 9. Japanese Communication Strategies: Collaboration toward Persuasion -- 3. Japanese Thought in Context -- 10. Relationality and Language-Associated Thought -- 11. Centrality of Scene: The World as a Relational Place -- 12. Nonagent Orientation: The World as "Becoming -- 13. More than Words: A World beyond Description -- 14. Echoing "Voices from the Heart": A World of Things and Emotions -- 15. Manipulation of Textual Voices: A World of Shifting Points of View -- 16. Speaking as Self-Narrative: The World as a Subjective and Interpersonal Place -- 4. Japanese Communication in Global Context -- 17. Japanese Text and Talk in Contrast -- 18. Japan-U.S. Intercultural Communication -- 19. Misinformation and Media in Global Context -- 20. Toward a New Awareness -- Appendix -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index