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Sophocleous, Andry – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
The complex notion of the public/private distinction of social spheres has not been systematically investigated in sociolinguistics; particularly in the case of bidialectal kindergarten age children and how they construct their social lives around this distinction in a public environment such as that of school. No simple continuum can clearly…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Sociolinguistics, Language Usage, Language Variation
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Burdelski, Matthew – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
This paper examines socialization of honorifics in Japanese. Drawing upon audiovisual recordings of interaction in households and a preschool, the paper details ways caregivers use honorifics with children and ways children use honorifics with caregivers and peers. The analysis shows ways caregivers use referent and addressee honorifics within…
Descriptors: Socialization, Japanese, Language Variation, Language Usage