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Publication details [#50968]

Sturtzsreetharan, Cindi L. 2009. Ore and omae: Japanese men’s uses of first- and second-person pronouns. Pragmatics 19 (2) : 253–278.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | face maintenance | men's language | pronoun | standard1 vs. dialect2

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper explores how male speakers of the Japanese Hanshinkan dialect variety use pronominal forms in their daily conversation. It is found that the uses are context-bound, aiming at specific conversational goals, and not at positioning speaker and hearer towards each other.