6. The honorific prefix “o-” in contemporary Japanese

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of contents VII
3. FOREWORD 1
4. 0. Dr. Takesi Sibata and the principal trends in Japanese sociolinguistics 5
5. (I) The study of sociolinguistics
6. 1. The language life of the Japanese 19
7. 2. The survey of a speech community and its methodology 51
8. 3. A 24 hour survey of the language life of the Japanese 65
9. 4. Individual differences among investigators of linguistic geography 73
10. (II) Honorifics
11. 5. Honorifics and honorifics research 91
12. 6. The honorific prefix “o-” in contemporary Japanese 99
13. 7. Learning to say “haha” 127
14. 8. The language life of Machino – The social psychology of honorifics – 143
15. 9. Honorifics in a community 157
16. (III) Language change
17. 10. The rise and fall of dialects 183
18. 11. The age structure of the speech community 207
19. 12. 20 Years of the Itoigawa dialect 217
20. 13. The evolution of Common Language in Hokkaido 229
21. 14. Dialect formation in a settlement 249
22. 15. Place names as evidence of Japanese settlement in Ainu Areas 263
23. (IV) Sociolect and idiolect
24. 16. Group language 277
25. 17. Group language and its emergence 301
26. 18. Fad words and language bosses 309
27. 19. Urbanization and language differences in social classes 321
28. 20. Changes in life and changes in language – stabilization of new expressions – 335
29. 21. The microtoponymy of a limited area considered as part of the vocabulary of an idiolect 351
30. (V)Norms of language
31. 22. Consciousness of language norms 371
32. 23. Standards of pronunciation 379
33. 24. Discriminatory words and linguistic taboos 391
34. Notes 395
35. References 407
36. Complete Works of Takesi Sibata 415
37. Sources of Original Publications 473
38. Index 479