Keigo in Modern Japan: Polite Language from Meiji to the Present

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Patricia Wetzel offers in this volume a comprehensive examination of a frequently discussed yet much misunderstood aspect of the Japanese language. Keigo, or "polite language," is often viewed as a quaint accessory to Japanese grammar and a relic of Japan's feudal past. Nothing, Wetzel contends, could be further from the truth. It is true that Japan has a long history of differentiating linguistic form on the basis of social status, psychological...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0824826027

ISBN13:9780824826024

Release Date:January 2004

Publisher:University of Hawaii Press

Length:216 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"

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