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Publication details [#4875]

Honna, Nobuyuki. 1975. A note on social structure and linguistic behavior: A case study of a Japanese community. In Peng, Fred C.C., ed. Language in Japanese society: Current issues in sociolinguistics. Tokyo UP. pp. 193–214.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

father | mother | social context | social status | suburban community

Language as a subject

Japanese

Annotation

Report of a pilot study surveying a few aspects of linguistic life in a suburban community in Japan in an attempt to discover the social variables related to language use. The mode of maternal communication is said to be determined by the mother's own social status, not so much by the father's.