Essays about: "masu"

Found 1 essay containing the word masu.

  1. 1. 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