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| Other authors / contributors: | Shibamoto-Smith, Janet S., author.
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| ISBN: | 9781139680400
1139680404
9781316726013
1316726010
9781316724217
1316724212
9781107072268
9781107420786
1107072263
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| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jul 2016).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Summary: | Why are different varieties of the Japanese language used differently in social interaction, and how are they perceived? How do honorifics operate to express diverse affective stances, such as politeness? Why have issues of gendered speech been so central in public discourse, and how are they reflected and refracted in language use as social practice? This book examines Japanese sociolinguistic phenomena from a fascinating new perspective, focusing on the historical construction of language norms and its relationship to actual language use in contemporary Japan. This socio-historically sensitive account stresses the different choices which have shaped Japanese and Western sociolinguistics and how varieties of Japanese, honorifics and politeness, and gendered language have emerged in response to the socio-political landscape in which a modernizing Japan found itself.
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| Other form: | Print version: Okamoto, Shigeko. Social Life of the Japanese Language. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015 9781107072268 1107072263
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