Är du man nog? Japanska mäns språkanvändning i samhället
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Summary, in English
Japanese men’s language is, in contrast with Japanese women’s language, an
understudied subject. Previous investigations lacks of the single focus that investigates only the men’s language and their sociolinguistic patterns. How Japanese men speak in the Japanese society, is often related to how stereotypical masculine men use their language. Stereotypical views that probably are born from the masculine and “rough”
talk in Japanese comics and movies that often present the men in this very manly way. But is this a fair imagination that consist with men in reality?
This thesis will investigate whether the Japanese men use strongly masculine forms when speaking in society, and moreover how the conversation partner’s age, sex and status affects the speakers language or not. It will also target a greater group of Japanese men in the Japanese society, not only the white collar company men’s language will be investigated, but also whether the smaller group of Japanese homosexual men’s language has it’s own sociolinguistic patterns or not. The different factors that influences of how Japanese men’s language differs from man to man will be dealt whit, as the matter of the men’s different age groups and the historical influences.
understudied subject. Previous investigations lacks of the single focus that investigates only the men’s language and their sociolinguistic patterns. How Japanese men speak in the Japanese society, is often related to how stereotypical masculine men use their language. Stereotypical views that probably are born from the masculine and “rough”
talk in Japanese comics and movies that often present the men in this very manly way. But is this a fair imagination that consist with men in reality?
This thesis will investigate whether the Japanese men use strongly masculine forms when speaking in society, and moreover how the conversation partner’s age, sex and status affects the speakers language or not. It will also target a greater group of Japanese men in the Japanese society, not only the white collar company men’s language will be investigated, but also whether the smaller group of Japanese homosexual men’s language has it’s own sociolinguistic patterns or not. The different factors that influences of how Japanese men’s language differs from man to man will be dealt whit, as the matter of the men’s different age groups and the historical influences.
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Publishing year
2011
Language
Swedish
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Document type
Student publication for Bachelor's degree
Topic
- Languages and Literatures
Keywords
- sentence final particles
- Japanese
- sociolinguistics
- gender
- personal pronouns
- japanska
Supervisor
- Lars Larm