Keigo in Modern Japan : : Polite Language from Meiji to the Present / / Patricia J. Wetzel.
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, Wetze...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2004] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) :; illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Keigo in Linguistics
- Chapter 2. Keigo in Kokugogaku
- Chapter 3. Inventing Keigo: Standardization
- Chapter 4. The Modernization of Keigo
- Chapter 5. Keigo Common Sense
- Appendix 1. Keigo from Now On
- Appendix 2. Guidelines for Expressions of Respect (Keii Hyōgen) in the Modern Age
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index