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Publication details [#38960]

Koyama, Wataru. 2004. Honorifics in critical-historic pragmatics: the linguistic ideologies of modernity, the national standard, and modern Japanese honorifics. Journal of Pragmatics 36 (11) : 2023–2054.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

historical explanation | honorific | pragmatic theory | standard1 vs. dialect2

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This article discusses the major pragmatic theories of modern Anglo-American and Japanese societies in their socio-historical surroundings, and examines modern Japanese honorifics.