A Linguistic Analysis of Fictional Conversations in Kafka’s Works

Yoshinori Nishijima is currently a Professor of Sociolinguistics and Intercultural Communication Studies at the School of Economics of Kanazawa University, Japan. He studied German Language and Linguistics at Chiba University and Hiroshima University, Japan. He was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Heidelberg and a Guest Professor at the University of Regensburg, Germany, and has published widely on language and politeness with reference to both Japanese and German, as well as on Franz Kafka’s rhetoric. His recent research focuses on functionally equivalent linguistic landscapes between Japanese and German, comparing them and identifying the preferred styles in each language.