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SPECIAL ISSUE ON ‘JAPANESE SOCIOLINGUISTICS’

CONTRIBUTORS

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Introduction 281

Sachiko IDE

Sachiko Ide studied English and Linguistics at Japan Women’s University, where she now teaches, and Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin and International Chris- tian University.

Japanese Sociolinguistics. An Introductory Survey 287

Leo LOVEDAY

Leo John Loveday (born 195.5) is Associate Professor in English Linguistics at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. His principal research has been concerned with sociolinguistic aspects of L2 learning and Japanese as well as semiotics and cultural anthropology.

Among his recent publications are: The sociolinguistics of learning and using a non-natiue language, Pergamon Press: Oxford (1982); ‘Rhetoric patterns in conflict’. Journal of Pragmatics 7:169-190 (1983); ‘At the crossroads: the folk ideology of femininity in the Japanese comic’. Fabulu 24:246-263 (1983); ‘Japanese clothing and aesthetic tradition’. Media Development 31124-27 (1984); ‘At cross purposes: semiotic schism in Japanese-Western interaction’. In: R.J. Brunt and W. Enninger, eds., Interdisciplinary perspectives at cross-cultural communication. Aachen: Rader (1985); ‘Partaking with the divine and symbolizing the societal; the semiotics of Japanese food and drink’. Semioticu 56:115-131 (1985), and Explorations in Japanese sociolin&istics.

Amsterdam: John Benjamins (1986).

Sociopsychological Characteristics of Users of ‘New Dialect’ Forms 327

Fumio INOUE

Fumio INOUE, born in 1942. Graduated from Faculty of Letters, Tokyo University. Presently professor of Japanese linguistics, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

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Major in Sociolinguistics. Dialectology. Publications: A sociolinguistics study of ‘New Diulect’ and ‘Language Deterioration’ (1983). Neologisms in Japanese: materials (with Tsunao Ogino) (1984). The changing Japanese language - distribution and change of ‘New Dialect Form’, Meiji Shoin (1985). Age-area distribution of the Kanto and Tohoku Dialects, SF Glottograms (1985)

Universals of Linguistic Politeness. Quantitative Evidence from Japanese and American English 347

Beverly HILL, Sachiko IDE, Shoko IKUTA, Akiko KAWASAKI and Tsunao OGINO

Beverly Hill studied German, Classics, and Linguistics at the University of Texas- Austin, and Germanic Linguistics at the Free University of Berlin. She teaches at the University of Tsukuba.

Sachiko Ide studied English and Linguistics at Japan Women’s University, where she now teaches, and Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin and International Chris- tian University.

Akiko Kawasaki studied English and Linguistics at Japan Women’s University, Lin- guistics at Syracuse University, and Area Studies and Linguistics at the University of Tsukuba, where she now teaches.

Shoko Ikuta studied English and Linguistics at Japan Women’s University and Linguistics at Cornell University. She teaches at Meiji Gakuin University.

Tsunao Ogino studied Linguistics and Dialectology at Tokyo University. He teaches at Saitama University.

The Japan-U.S. Sociolinguistics Research Group was founded in Tokyo in 1982 by the authors, with Eleanor Jorden and Elizabeth Hengeveld.

A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Japanese Honorifies 373

Motoko HORI

I got a BA in English literature from Notre Dame Seishin University, Okayama, Japan, in 1959, and an MA in English education from International Christian University, Tokyo, in 1976. Through my training in, and teaching of English for many years, I have become interested in the study of language itself; my current interest is in language acquisition, viewed as social interaction, and in language use in a social context. Most of my written work so far can be classified into either of these two areas: ‘Fundamental problems in language innate theory’. Educational Studies 21, International Christian University (1978); ‘On the genesis of child language’. In: Motoko Hori and F.C. Peng, eds., Aspects of lunguuge acquisition (1981); ‘Before a word is uttered’. (ibid.); ‘Par-

titles’. In: F.C. Peng et al., eds., Male/female differences in the Japanese language;

‘What is not made clear by figures in linguistic researches’. In: F.C. Peng, Koji

Akiyama and Motoko Hori, eds., Analyzing language by function (1983); ‘An attempt to measure Japanese honorifics: a comparison of men’s and women’s speech’. Journal of Tsuda College 15 (1983), and the two papers listed in the references of the present article.

Review

Takesi Sibata, Shakai gengogaku no kadai [Problems of Sociolinguistics] 387

Paul 0. TAKAHARA

Paul 0. Takahara (born 1937) is professor of English linguistics in the Department of English at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies. He studied linguistics at Interna- tional Christian University, Tokyo and at the Department of linguistics of Indian University and the University of Illinois, USA. His research interests include prag- matics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, semantics, and computational linguistics.