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	Japanese honorifics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Japanese has many honorifics, and their use is mandatory in many social situations.
		Honorifics in Japanese may be used to emphasize social distance or disparity in rank, or to emphasize social intimacy or similarity in rank.
		Honorifics in Japanese are broadly referred to as keigo (敬語, literally "respectful language"), and fall under three main categories: sonkeigo (尊敬語), respectful language; kensongo (謙遜語) or kenjōgo (謙譲語), modest or humble language; and teineigo (丁寧語), polite language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_honorifics (2634 words)

	Japanese Information Center - japanese girls
		Japanese is written with a mix of Chinese characters (kanji) and a modified syllabary, kana, also originally japanese words based on Chinese characters.
		Japanese is a kind of creole, with an Altaic substratum and an Austronesian superstratum, or vice versa.
		Modern Japanese is written in a mixture of three main scripts: kanji, characters of Chinese origin used to represent both Chinese loanwords into Japanese and a number of native Japanese morphemes; and two syllabaries: hiragana and katakana.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_H_-_L/Japanese.html (3297 words)

	Honorifics and family titles
		When addressing a person in Japan, it is customary to affix the honorific suffix -san after the person's name (usually the surname, but it can also be attached to the given name of a person one knows well and is on a casual level with).
		Japanese use different words to indicate whether they are talking about a member of their own family or someone else's.
		* A Japanese wife often calls her husband "anata," which literally means "you," but is used in this case to mean something like "dear" or "darling." Likewise, the husband may refer to his wife as "omae" or "kimi," both of which are also translated "you." These terms are used in place of the person's name.
	www.kyokipress.com /wings/honorifics.html (340 words)

	AAS Abstracts: Japan Session 33 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Studies of sociolinguistic phenomena in Japanese are particularly vulnerable to this kind of criticism, because they more often than not present characterizations based on "normative"/stereotypical linguistic usages, or language and cultural ideologies, rather than accurate descriptions of actual language practices.
		Japanese honorifics have commonly been treated as direct indexes of contextual features, such as status difference and the degree of intimacy (Ide, 1989; Niyekawa, 1991, etc.).
		For example, referent honorifics may be used to index (indirectly) different social meanings, such as the referent's power, distance toward the addressee, the speaker's class status, and speech-act types.
	www.aasianst.org /absts/1997abst/japan/j33.htm (1099 words)

	Japanese language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Japanese is a kind of creole, with an Altaic grammatical substructure, and core Austronesian vocabulary.
		Japanese "r" is somewhat close to the Spanish "r" or the flap in American English, i.e.
		Japanese children rarely use polite speech until their teens, at which point they are expected to begin speaking in a more adult manner.
	japanese-language.iqnaut.net (4593 words)

	LL&T Nagata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Japanese honorifics are used in both spoken and written contexts.
		In short, a speaker needs to choose honorific forms depending on who the subject of the sentence is, on who the object of the sentence is, on whom the speaker is talking to, and so forth.
		Japanese honorifics are fairly complicated structures which represent a major hurdle for second-language learners of Japanese.
	llt.msu.edu /vol1num2/article1/default.html (5672 words)

	Japanese language - Avoo - Ask Us A Question - Japanese (日本語, Nihongo (help·info)) is a language spoken by ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Historical linguists who specialize in Japanese agree that it is one of the two members of the Japonic language family, the other member being Ryūkyūan.
		The Ryūkyūan languages, while closely related to Japanese, are distinct enough to be considered a separate branch of the Japonic family, and are not dialects of Japanese.
		The r of the Japanese language (technically a lateral apical postalveolar flap), is of particular interest, sounding to most Europeans' ears to be something between an l and a retroflex r depending on its position in a word.
	www.sanpablocaus.com /profile/Japanese_language (5363 words)

	Japanese
		The Japanese writing system can be traced back to the 4th century AD, when Chinese writing was introduced to Japan through the medium of Buddhism, as Japan adopted Chinese cultural practices and reorganized its government in accordance with the Chinese administrative structure.
		Because the Chinese characters (called kanji in Japanese) could not represent all the elements of the Japanese language, two syllabaries of approximately 50 syllables each, called hiragana and katakana, were created in the 12th century.
		Japanese is considered to be a Category III language in terms of difficulty for speakers of English.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/march/Japanese.html (1917 words)

	languagehat.com: JAPANESE HONORIFICS FADING.
		For many older Japanese, the decline of the honorific form amounted to losing the deep beauty of their language and the coarsening of the social culture.
		As a native Japanese I compare the Japanese honorifics and the underlying age hierarchy to the infamous caste system of India.
		Honorifics are simply words, at least in this day and age, to describe how one truely feels for another, feels in the prescence of another, show respect for another, and so on.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/000943.php (1686 words)

	Miroslawa Kaczmarek
		Japanese is widely known as one of the most difficult languages to gain pragmatic competence.
		Because of the differences in indexing addressee honorifics in situational context of conversation, it was supposed that the linguistic behaviors of use and non-use of addressee honorifics might play different psycho-linguistic functions in Japanese and Polish conversations.
		On the basis of differences in ways of manipulating addressee honorifics by Japanese and Polish speakers, it is suggested that strategic language use in Japanese does not appear at the level of individual sentences, while strategic language use in Polish seems to appear at this level.
	webhost.ua.ac.be /tisp/viewabstract.php?id=458 (485 words)

	anime.mikomi.org - HonorificsExplained
		However, in the past, the "-dono" honorific actually held a higher degree of respect that "-sama", as the lord of a villiage was addressed as such.
		The "-chan" honorific is used by adults addressing young children, girls addressing girls, boys addressing girls, and girls (and sometimes boys) addressing pets.
		No other suffix honorific is used for the family member to say "mom", "dad", etc. As defined above, the honorific used indicates the degree of respect paid to the family member and/or the closeness felt to the family member being addressed.
	anime.mikomi.org /wiki/HonorificsExplained (2472 words)

	Top 20 Japanese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Japanese is written with a mix of Chinese characters (kanji) and a modified syllabary, kana, also originally based on Chinese characters.
		Historical linguists who specialize in Japanese agree that it is one of the two members of the Japonic language family, but do not agree further about the origins of the language.
		However, Japanese borrowed thousands upon thousands of words from Chinese, and for various reasons, many of these Chinese-based words are now homophones (words pronounced identically) in Japanese.
	top20japanese.com (3626 words)

	Japanese 496: Introduction to the Structure of Japanese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Japanese 496: Introduction to the Structure of Japanese
		This course is an introduction to major areas of linguistic description (phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics) of the Japanese language, and to the use and functions of the language in relation to the social structures and interpersonal relationships.
		Following a brief survey of basic linguistic concepts, the discussion will be focused on the structure of Japanese, in comparison with English and other languages, and will be extended to major sociolinguistic issues.
	wings.buffalo.edu /soc-sci/linguistics/japanese/course/411/syllabus.htm (657 words)

	anime.org.au - anime and manga for australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This lesson covers common Japanese honorifics and their uses, including -san, -kun, -chan, and -sensei.
		This lesson finishes the coverage of Japanese honorifics, including -sama, -senpai, -kohai, and -dono.
		Japanese also have their version of the Christmas cake, although it is far from the rich, moist fruitcakes that are traditional over here.
	www.anime.org.au /main/page.php?page=8 (392 words)

	Japanese Words, Honorifics, and Familiar Titles
		Anime-to English IV For those of you who are shooting for "genuine" Anime-style roleplaying but may not be familiar with a great deal of Anime, here are some Japanese honorifics, familiarity terms and school speak comonly used in Anime.
		To not use an honorific means one of two things; either contempt for the person to whom you're speaking, or else it implies that you share a very close relationship with said person.
		Also note that the terms for big/little brother and sister are often used as terms of affection for close friends whose relationship with you roughly approximates that of a big or little brother or sister.
	members.tripod.com /virtualmekton/ate-iii-iv.html (542 words)

	Total Quality Japanese: Speaking without pronouns
		Unfortunately for teachers of Japanese, were textbooks to start out teaching the language with these two sentences (which just happen to represent the way Japanese really do talk to each other), it would mean that students of Japanese would have to be coaxed early on into learning to speak without pronouns.
		The use of "ojosan" to mean "your daughter" is an example of how so-called honorifics in Japanese perform the work of pronouns in English.
		I love you in natural Japanese is "ai shite imasu." In "foreigner talk" it is "Watakushi wa anata o ai shite imasu." The sentence may be long but to Japanese ears it is not a very passionate declaration of affection.
	www.cic.sfu.ca /tqj/GettingRight/pronouns.html (785 words)

	Robo-Sensei :: start ROBO-SENSEI lessons
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	Research
		The linguistic data in my research are chiefly from Korean and Japanese: I am a native speaker of both languages.
		These impacts have been not only largely neglected in the academic literature but also more often than not deliberately undermined and misrepresented to the general public by ultra-nationalist scholars of the late 18th century and even by their ideological followers of today’s Japan.
		Is Quantifier-Floating in Japanese a Recent Innovation?...Contextual Analysis of the Numeral Quantifier Construction in Old Japanese.
	mypage.siu.edu /alanhkim/Research.htm (2458 words)

	AnimatedBliss.com - Manga Review: The Wallflower V. 1
		In addition to retaining the Japanese honorifics, they also left the original Japanese sound effects intact and placed the English translations near them.
		In addition to introducing the reader to Japanese honorifics, Del Rey includes translation notes, a note from and information on the creator, previews of the rest of the Del Rey manga line, and a preview of volume 2 of The Wallflower.
		Unfortunately, there is a delay between the Japanese and US releases and as a result, the preview is completely in Japanese with no translations of any kind.
	www.animatedbliss.com /news.asp?TID=2525 (1240 words)

	honorifics - OneLook Dictionary Search
		We found 2 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word honorifics:
		Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "honorifics" is defined.
		Phrases that include honorifics: ancient chinese honorifics, chinese honorifics, japanese honorifics
	www.onelook.com /?w=honorifics (79 words)

	Dynastic Destruction
		Japan is probably the most polite country in the world.
		One way of showing it is using honorifics after somebody's name.
		-san: The most common honorific, it is used as Mr, Mrs, Ms, etc. Mostly used when politeness is required
	www.freewebs.com /dwmaster/japhonorifics.htm (114 words)

	Erica Zimmerman - Bibliography ::: EALL Online
		"A Meta-analysis of a CMC project for L2 Japanese Learners" Hawai'i Association of Language Teachers, University of Hawaii at Manoa, March 17, 2001
		"Presentation of Self in Non-native Speaker Interaction: The use of Addressee honorifics and plain forms for indexing the student¡¯s role in the classroom" The Fourth Annual Conference for Graduate Students in the College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, University of Hawaii at Manoa, April 8, 2000
		"Converging Toward the Interlocutor: Sentence-Final Forms in Japanese Conversations" Co-authored with Rumi Terao, In WORD, 51, 1, April 2000, 41-57.
	www.hawaii.edu /eall/ppl/indiv/Jap/ZimmermanErica-biblio.htm (394 words)

	Cobb: Japanese Honorifics Demystified (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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		Hook up anzidesign Japanese honorifics (via Cobb) Xian says it's beginning to look a lot like Grozny "They wasted me."...
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	www.lawrence.edu /dept/chja/fac/Fujii.shtml (43 words)

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