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Publication details [#57547]

Okamoto, Shigeko. 2013. Variability in societal norms for Japanese women’s speech: Implications for linguistic politeness. Multilingua 32 (2) : 203–223.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | language and society | politeness | variability | women's language

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This paper discusses how variability in societal norms for Japanese women’s speech (practice and in ways of understanding this norm) affects linguistic politeness.