Keigo in Modern Japan: Polite Language from Meiji to the Present by Patricia J. Wetzel

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


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Keigo in Modern Japan: Polite Language from Meiji to the Present Patricia J. Wetzel
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, The


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. The book reveals the ways in which keigo has been problematized in the West through Western linguistics' application of structuralist analysis and its offshoots. But keigo's presence in the English-language literature does not begin to compare with the place it occupies in the Japanese linguistic canon. Wetzel describes the historical roots and growth of keigo and the popularity of how-to manuals, which, she ...

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