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Publication details [#14773]

Maynard, Senko Kumiya. 1997. Shifting contexts: The sociolinguistic significance of nominalization in Japanese television news. Language in Society 26 (3) : 381–399.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | media language | nominalization

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

The research findings suggest that Japanese nominalization usage correlates with two speech contexts, labeled 'television talk' and 'television announcements'. Sociocultural implications are drawn.