Essays about: "shinkeigo"

Found 1 essay containing the word shinkeigo.

  1. 1. Expressing deference and intimacy concurrently with honorifics

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Japanska

    Author : Patrik Lindqvist Rombe; [2023]
    Keywords : ssu; shinkeigo; honorifics; politeness; Japanese language; intimacy; deference; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : 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