Students, sarariiman (pl.), and seniors: Japanese men's use of 'manly' speech register

Language in Society

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 81-107

  Sreetharan, Cindi Sturtz ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender and language; Japanese; Kansai region; Language ideology; Masculinity; Sentence final particles

Indexed keywords

EID: 1442352932     PISSN: 00474045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0047404504031045     Document Type: Review

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