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Publication details [#30775]

Adachi, Nobuko. 2002. Negotiation of speech style in Japanese women's language: vantage theory as cognitive sociolinguistics. Language Sciences 24 (5-6) : 575–590.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognitive sociology | sociolinguistics | women's language | workplace conversation

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0388-0001

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This study uses vantage theory to analyze Japanese women's speech and argues that this theory models workplace relations as a complete system and the regularities within Japanese society in terms of finite reference points entailing series of predictable behavior.