Essays about: "Standard Japanese"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 essays containing the words Standard Japanese.
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1. Expressing deference and intimacy concurrently with honorifics
University essay from Lunds universitet/JapanskaAbstract : This study is about ssu, a potential norm breaking honorific which reportedly can express intimacy and deference concurrently. While expressing intimacy and deference concurrently is incompatible with Brown and Levinson’s (1978 as cited in Hasegawa, 2015) politeness theory, Hasegawa (2015) provides a modification of their theory that allows for it. READ MORE
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2. Roald Dahl’s The BFG in Translation : The lexically creative idiolect of "the BFG" and its translation into Japanese
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/JapanskaAbstract : A translator works as a mediator between an original work that has been written in one language, a source text, and those who will be the audience of the translation, or, in other words, the target text. Translating a text is often a challenging task, as the translator must keep in mind both the source text and its author’s intentions with the text, and also its intended audience, but also keep in mind the target audience of the target text. READ MORE
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3. The Hokkaido Dialect: A Standardising Dialect?
University essay from Lunds universitet/JapanskaAbstract : This thesis explores the standardisation process of the Hokkaido Dialect, a Japanese variety spoken on Japan’s northernmost island. This dialect, in turn, will be compared to the island of Okinawa and its regional equivalent Uchinaa-Yamatoguchi. These islands are parallel to each other as they share similar historical and political events. READ MORE
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4. ALTERED POTENTIAL FORM IN WRITTEN JAPANESE. A quantitative corpus analysis of ranuki-kotoba
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : This is a study on the frequency of ranuki-kotoba in written Japanese. It is apparent that Ranuki-kotoba is gaining popularity as there have been multiple surveys and opinion polls on the topic. There has however not been many quantitative analyses of pre-existing data to examine the current use of ranuki-kotoba. READ MORE
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5. The Perception of Intonation in Japanese Sentence Types by Swedish Speakers : Wh-Questions, Yes/No-Questions and Declaratives
University essay from Lunds universitet/JapanskaAbstract : This study is concerned with the topic of sentence-final intonation in wh-questions, yes/no- questions and declaratives. The aim of the study is to investigate whether native speakers of Swedish can recognize these sentence types in standard Japanese by listening to the intonation alone. READ MORE
