Essays about: "honorifics"

Showing result 6 - 7 of 7 essays containing the word honorifics.

1. 6. The paradigm of -haru

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Japanska

   Author : Jacob Eveson; [2012]
   Keywords : morphology; Kyoto; keigo; Kansai; Japanese; honorifics; -haru; dialect; grammaticality; paradigm; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : The focus of this paper is the paradigm of the Kyoto realization of the dialectal honorific suffix -haru found in the dialects spoken in the Kansai area of western Japan. A number of hypothetical forms are examined and tested against the intuitions of a native Japanese speaker familiar with the dialects of the Kansai area, including the Kyoto dialect, and the morphological possibilities and constraints of the suffix are then elaborated upon through further examination of the tested forms deemed to be nonexistent. READ MORE

3. 7. Brown and Levinson Online - On the implications of politeness strategies and the Japanese desu/masu-form in a massively multiplayer online game

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Japanska

   Author : Jens Larsson; [2011]
   Keywords : chat; cmc; pragmatics; online; eve; game; style-shift; levinson; brown; masu; desu; japanese; politeness; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Politeness in Japanese has been the subject of many linguistic inquiries. Overarching these is Brown and Levinson's (1987) influential but also criticized (see Matsumoto, 1988; Ide 1992) theory on politeness as a cross-linguistic factor. READ MORE