Asahi / Usami / Inoue Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5015-0147-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 8, 709 Seiten

Reihe: Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics [HJLL]ISSN

This volume is the first comprehensive survey of the sociolinguistic studies on Japanese. Japanese, like other languages, has developed a highly diverse linguistic system that is realized as variation shaped by interactions of linguistic and social factors. This volume primarily focuses on both classic and current topics of sociolinguistics that were first studied in Western languages, and then subsequently examined in the Japanese language. The topics in this volume cover major issues in sociolinguistics that also characterize sociolinguistic features of Japanese. Such topics as gender, honorifics, and politeness are particularly pertinent to Japanese, as is well-known in general sociolinguistics. At the same time, this volume includes studies on other topics such as social stratification, discourse, contact, and language policy, which have been widely conducted in the Japanese context. In addition, this volume introduces "domestic" approaches to sociolinguistics developed in Japan. They emerged a few decades before the development of the so-called Labovian and Hymesian sociolinguistics in the US, and they have shaped a unique development of sociolinguistic studies in Japan.

Contents

Part I: History
Chapter 1: Research methodology

Chapter 2: Japan and the international sociolinguistic community

Chapter 3: Language life

Part II: Sociolinguistic patterns
Chapter 4: Style, prestige, and salience in language change in progress

Chapter 5: Group language (shudango)

Chapter 6: Male-female differences in Japanese

Part III: Language and gender
Chapter 7: Historical overview of language and gender studies: From past to future

Chapter 8: Genderization in Japanese: A typological view

Chapter 9: Feminist approaches to Japanese language, gender, and sexuality

Part IV: Honorifics and politeness
Chapter 10: Japanese honorifics

Chapter 11: Intersection of traditional Japanese honorific theories and Western politeness theories

Chapter 12: Intersection of discourse politeness theory and interpersonal Communication

Part V: Culture and discourse phenomena
Chapter 13: Subjective expression and its roles in Japanese discourse: Its development in Japanese and impact on general linguistics

Chapter 14: Style, character, and creativity in the discourse of Japanese popular culture: Focusing on light novels and keitai novels

Chapter 15: Sociopragmatics of political discourse

Part VI: Language contact
Chapter 16: Contact dialects of Japanese

Chapter 17: Japanese loanwords and lendwords
Chapter 18: Japanese language varieties outside Japan
Chapter 19: Language contact and contact languages in Japan

Part VII: Language policy
Chapter 20: Chinese characters: Variation, policy, and landscape
Chapter 21: Language, economy, and nation

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of Linguistics, especially Sociolinguistics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Asahi, Yoshiyuki

Usami, Mayumi

Inoue, Fumio

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

Yoshiyuki Asahi and Fumio Inoue, NINJAL, Japan; Mayumi Usami, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan.

Yoshiyuki Asahi and Fumio Inoue, NINJAL, Japan; Mayumi Usami, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan.