Publications

Publication details [#28448]

Cook, Haruko Minegishi. 1996. Japanese language socialization: Indexing the modes of self. Discourse Processes 22 (2) : 171–197.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

address | classroom conversation | family conversation | socialization

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Ablex Publishing Company

ISBN

0163-853X

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

this study of Japanese honorific and plain forms of address in home and classroom interactions of elementary school children, suggests that these forms are employed as indexes of disciplined and spontaneous modes of self.