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Publication details [#60381]

Kataoka, Kuniyoshi and Yoshiyuki Asahi. 2015. Synchronic and diachronic variation in the use of spatial frames of reference: An analysis of Japanese route instruction. Journal of Sociolinguistics 19 (2) : 133–160.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | frame | reference, processing of | route description | space deixis

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

This paper reveals an increasing age-based preference for external frames of reference (FOR), viz. based on North-South-East-West, whilst a Japanese predilection of Internal FOR -based on Right-Left-Front-Back-, has slowly risen over the past century.