Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics

Contents

Part I: History
Chapter 1: Research methodology
Florian Coulmas
Chapter 2: Japan and the international sociolinguistic community
Yoshiyuki Asahi and J.K. Chambers
Chapter 3: Language life
Takehiro Shioda

Part II: Sociolinguistic patterns
Chapter 4: Style, prestige, and salience in language change in progress
Fumio Inoue
Chapter 5: Group language (shūdango)
Taro Nakanishi
Chapter 6: Male-female differences in Japanese
Yoshimitsu Ozaki

Part III: Language and gender
Chapter 7: Historical overview of language and gender studies: From past to future
Orie Endo and Hideko Abe
Chapter 8: Genderization in Japanese: A typological view
Katsue A. Reynolds
Chapter 9: Feminist approaches to Japanese language, gender, and sexuality
Momoko Nakamura

Part IV: Honorifics and politeness
Chapter 10: Japanese honorifics
Takashi Nagata
Chapter 11: Intersection of traditional Japanese honorific theories and Western politeness theories
Masato Takiura
Chapter 12: Intersection of discourse politeness theory and interpersonal Communication
Mayumi Usami

Part V: Culture and discourse phenomena
Chapter 13: Subjective expression and its roles in Japanese discourse: Its development in Japanese and impact on general linguistics
Yoko Ujiie
Chapter 14: Style, character, and creativity in the discourse of Japanese popular culture: Focusing on light novels and keitai novels
Senko K. Maynard
Chapter 15: Sociopragmatics of political discourse
Shoji Azuma

Part VI: Language contact
Chapter 16: Contact dialects of Japanese
Yoshiyuki Asahi
Chapter 17: Japanese loanwords and lendwords
Frank E. Daulton
Chapter 18: Japanese language varieties outside Japan
Mie Hiramoto
Chapter 19: Language contact and contact languages in Japan
Daniel Long

Part VII: Language policy
Chapter 20: Chinese characters: Variation, policy, and landscape
Hiroyuki Sasahara
Chapter 21: Language, economy, and nation
Katsumi Shibuya