Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics
by Maynard, Senko K., Long, Daniel, Endo, Orie, Kageyama, Taro, Asahi, Yoshiyuki, Usami, Mayumi, Inoue, Fumio, Abe, Hideko, Azuma, Shoji, Chambers, J. K., Coulmas, Florian, Daulton, Frank E., Hiramoto, Mie, Nagata, Takashi, Nakamura, Momoko, Nakanishi, Taro, Ozaki, Yoshimitsu, Reynolds, Katsue A., Sasahara, Hiroyuki, Shibatani, Masayoshi, Shibuya, Katsumi, Shioda, Takehiro, Takiura, Masato, Ujiie, Yoko
fromHandbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics (HJLL)
This volume is the first comprehensive survey of the sociolinguistic studies on Japanese. Japanese, like other languages, has developed a highly diverse linguistic system that is realized as variation shaped by interactions of linguistic and social factors. This volume primarily…