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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
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
ISBN
0957-9265

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.