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

ISBN: 0824826027

ISBN13: 9780824826024

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

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...

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