Style shifts in Japanese video game commentary monologues
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<jats:p>Honorific markers play an integral role in many languages, but their purpose and meaning are still widely debated. Ide (1989) claims a one-to-one relationship between social rank difference and linguistic form, but Cook (1997, 2011) proposes that honorifics are used to display a ‘disciplined self,’ which further indexes a variety of social meanings. This study examined style shifts between the honorific and plain form in Japanese video game commentary monologues. We found that instances of honorific form can be grouped into four categories regarding their contextual functions: to make an announcement, to indicate seriousness, conventionalized formulae, and to quote others. This conclusion supports Cook’s proposal.</jats:p>
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Christensen, Soren, and Yunchuan Chen (n.d.). Style shifts in Japanese video game commentary monologues. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 7(1). pp. 5227–5227. 10.3765/plsa.v7i1.5227 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/32378.
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Yunchuan Chen
My research interests are experimental approaches to grammars, L2 acquisition and heritage languages. My research projects so far include Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Tibetan, Thai and Nuosu Yi. I am also interested in how to teach/learn foreign languages effectively with meaning-based approaches.
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