@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00006322,
 author = {WEBSTER, FIONA},
 issue = {1},
 journal = {言語文化論集},
 month = {Nov},
 note = {One of the challenges for learners of the Japanese language is the understanding required to recognise and effectively employ speech acts. These are utterances which are intertwined with cultural values and social relationships prevalent in Japanese society, and indeed any linguistic community. This paper analyses the concept of on, or the particularly Japanese phenomenon of bestowed benefit and incurred debt. This speech act occurs in various language transactions in Japanese, in both formal and informal contexts, and this paper attempts to analyses and comment on some authentic exchanges for their semantic and pragmatic implications, with follow-up comments on implications for teachers and learners of the Japanese language.},
 pages = {23--33},
 title = {The 恩 [on] concept : dependency-acknowledging speech acts in Japanese},
 volume = {24},
 year = {2002}
}