Publications

Publication details [#39066]

Moeran, Brian. 1988. Japanese language and society: An anthropological approach. Journal of Pragmatics 12 (4) : 427–443.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

anthropology | language and society | language use | social context

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This response to Loveday's survey of Japanese sociolinguistics (JoP, Volume 10, 1986, pp. 287–326) aims at placing Japanese language usage in its social context.