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Discernment and Variation: The Action-Oriented Use of Japanese Addressee Honorifics
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Geyer, Naomi – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
This paper examines the use of Japanese addressee honorific in several social contexts (e.g., family dinner table and faculty meetings) and considers the relationship between social norms and variations. It attempts to reconsider the notion of discernment (Ide, 1989, 2006) in line with Bourdieu's (1977) conception of "habitus,"…
Descriptors: Japanese, Language Usage, Pragmatics, Form Classes (Languages)