sociolinguistics tetsuya kunihiro fumio inoue daniel long editors takesi sibata sociolinguistics japanese contexts 1998 23 x 15 5 cm xvi 489 pages cloth dm 248 approx us 155 00 isbn 311 014979 6 contributions sociology language 81 mouton de gruyter berlin new york book presents collection papers takesi sibata one leading linguists japan pioneer field japanese sociolinguistics incorporating numerous ideas western linguistics japanese sociolinguistics developed largely independently western tradition volume makes accessible work influential scholar time provides overdue introduction field japanese sociolinguistics contents foreword dr takesi sibata principal trends japanese sociolinguistics study sociolinguistics 1 language life japanese 2 survey speech community methodology 3 24 hour survey language life japanese 4 individual differences among investigators linguistic geography ii honorifics 5 honorifics honorifics research 6 honorific prefix contemporary japanese 7 learning say haha 8 language life machino 9 honorifics community iii language change 10 rise fall dialects 11 age structure speech community 12 20 years itoigawa dialect 13 evolution common language hokkaido 14 dialect formation settlement 15 place names evidence japanese settlement ainu areas iv sociolect idiolect 16 group language 17 group language emergence 18 fad words language bosses 19 urbanization language differences social classes 20 changes life changes language 21 microtoponymy limited area considered part vocabulary idiolect v norms language 22 consciousness language norms 23 standards pronunciation 24 discriminatory words linguistic taboos notes references complete works takesi sibata sources original publications index _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ mouton de gruyter walter de gruyter inc postfach 30 34 21 200 saw mill river road d10728 berlin hawthorne ny 10532 germany usa fax 49 0 30 26005351 fax 1 914 7471326 email mouton degruyter de publications de gruyter also ordered via world wide web http www degruyter com