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Keigo, Conditionals & Complex Grammar

Politeness levels (keigo), conditionals, relative clauses and complex sentences
敬語の語用論
pragmatics of keigo
keigo pragmatics
Uchi/soto, social distance, and keigo choice
敬語の体系的分析
systematic analysis of keigo
keigo system
The 5-category modern keigo classification
待遇表現
treatment expressions
taiguu hyougen
The broader system of social-relation marking
ポライトネス理論と日本語
politeness theory and Japanese
politeness theory
Brown & Levinson applied to Japanese
談話分析: 結束性
discourse analysis: cohesion
discourse cohesion
Reference, ellipsis, and connectives in text
社会言語学: 位相
sociolinguistics: language varieties
register/role language
役割語 (role language) and social indexing
男性語・女性語
men's and women's language
gendered language
Gendered speech features and their change
文体論
stylistics
style/genre
Features of literary, academic, and casual styles
日本語の歴史的変化
historical change in Japanese
language history
Major developments from Old to Modern Japanese
現代日本語の変化
change in contemporary Japanese
ongoing change
ら抜き言葉, keigo simplification, English influence