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Keigo in Modern Japan - Polite Language from Meiji to the Present (Hardcover, New)
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Keigo in Modern Japan - Polite Language from Meiji to the Present (Hardcover, New)
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Patricia Wetzel offers in this volume a comprehensive examination
of a frequently discussed yet much misunderstood aspect of the
Japanese language. Keigo, or "polite language, " is often viewed as
a quaint accessory to Japanese grammar and a relic of Japan's
feudal past. Nothing, Wetzel contends, could be further from the
truth. It is true that Japan has a long history of differentiating
linguistic form on the basis of social status, psychological
detachment, emotional reserve, and a host of other
context-dependent factors. But, as is made clear in this unique and
broadly framed study, modern keigo consciousness and keigo grammar
emerged out of Japan's encounter with Western intellectual trends
in the mid-to late nineteenth century. Keigo in Modern Japan
presents a finely nuanced linguistic and political review of keigo
available nowhere else in English. The first chapter outlines the
ways in which keigo has been problematized in Western linguistics
through the application of structuralist analysis and its
offshoots. But keigo's presence in the English-language literature
does not begin to compare with the place it occupies in the
Japanese linguistic canon. Wetzel describes the historical roots
and growth of keigo and the popularity of how-to manuals, which,
she contends, are less about overt instruction than reinforcing
what people already believe.
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