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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