Japanese sociolinguistics

Author: (Japan) Masanori Shintani / Hu Shi Yun et al
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Publish Date: 1996-08-01
Features: The fundamental perspective of sociolinguistics is to study the relationship between language and society, focusing on how people use language in social life and the specific behaviors of language use. In other words, sociolinguistics is concerned with the question of who, what, where, when, and how people use language locally. The research fields of Japanese sociolinguistics mainly include the following aspects: social attributes and language, language behavior, language contact, language change, language awareness, and language education. This book is structured around these frameworks, utilizing language data collected from various parts of Japan to conduct sociolinguistic examinations of the aforementioned research fields. This book can help Chinese readers gain insights into Japanese sociolinguistics from one perspective, understanding the variations in the Japanese language. If this book can facilitate in-depth research on the relationship between language and society with Chinese peers, I will be even happier. However, this is all thanks to the hard work of the several translators.