Publications

Publication details [#11739]

Azuma, Shoji. 1997. Speech Accommodation and Japanese Emperor Hirohito. Discourse & Society 8 (2) : 189–202. 14 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accommodation theory | evaluation | style

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Analysis of Emperor Hirohito's speeches exemplifies a convergence to the speech style of the (lower class) audience, while also indicating that attribution of meaning is dependent on the listener's assessment of message appropriateness.