Negotiation of speech style in Japanese women's language: Vantage theory as cognitive sociolinguistics

Language Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 575-590

  Adachi, Nobuko ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Conceptual frames; Conceptual viewpoint; Japanese; Language and power; Liminality; Politeness; Resistance; Similarity judgement; Vantage theory; Women's speech styles

Indexed keywords

EID: 22944440326     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0388-0001(01)00005-5     Document Type: Article

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