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The Social Life of the Japanese Language: Cultural Discourse and Situated Practice
Okamoto, Shigeko (University of California, Santa Cruz)
The Social Life of the Japanese Language: Cultural Discourse and Situated Practice
Okamoto, Shigeko (University of California, Santa Cruz)
This book focuses on the historical construction of language norms and actual language use in contemporary Japan. The authors explore 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.
352 pages, 3 b/w illus. 4 maps 39 tables
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | August 4, 2016 |
ISBN13 | 9781107072268 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 352 |
Dimensions | 235 × 160 × 26 mm · 690 g |