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Usage-based approaches to Japanese grammar : towards the understanding of human language / edited by Kaori Kabata, Tsuyoshi Ono, University of Alberta

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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
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1 online resource
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Kabata, Kaori and Ono, Tsuyoshi
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Cognition and language use -- Frequency, interaction and language use -- Language change and variation.
Summary
It is often said that language standardization has been steadily advancing in modern Japan and that speakers in regional Japan are now bi-dialectal and code-switch between "Standard" and "regional" Japanese. The notion of code-switching, however, assumes the existence of varieties, or well-defined linguistic systems, that are distinct from each other. In this study, I examine the use of "Standard Japanese" and "regional dialects" and argue that it is much more complex and dynamic than what can be possibly accounted for in terms of the notion of code-switching involving two distinct varieties
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ISBN
9789027270313 (electronic bk.)
9027270317 (electronic bk.)
1306803799 (ebk)
9781306803793 (ebk)
9789027259219
9027259216
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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