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Fall 2009
This study explores how native and non-native speakers (L1 English intermediate) of Japanese combine clauses in spoken language, examines how clause-combining is presented in Japanese textbooks, and makes suggestions to teaching. It was found that native speakers tend to combine clauses but...
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Using plain forms but still being polite: speech style shifting as an interactional phenomenon in Japanese native and non-native talk
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The Japanese language is known for its various styles of speech, conditioned by factors such as social status, formality, and gender. When a speaker switches between the speech styles within the same talk targeted at the same recipient, such a phenomenon is called speech style shifting...
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Fall 2012
In Mandarin Chinese, the particle ne has been studied using written text, constructed examples, and hypothetical discourse settings. However, these studies overlooked the interaction and relationships that exist between speakers when considering the usage of ne. In this thesis, we analyze the...
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Style shifting in Japanese native/non-native conversation: an in depth analysis of short/long form usage
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There are two distinct styles of predicates in Japanese: the long form and the short form. The former is associated with politeness/formality, while the latter is reserved for more intimate social settings. It is expected that when the relationship of the speakers and the setting remains the...
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From Karuto or “Cult” to the Mainstream: The Reconstruction of Public Images by a Japanese Religious Group
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Aum Shinrikyo, a religious sect generally seen as a karuto or “cult” in Japanese society, carried out sarin gas attacks in 1995. Today, a successor group called Aleph has successfully recruited numerous converts, despite the negative profile of Aum in the Japanese media. This study seeks to...
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Spring 2016
Miyako is a language spoken on remote southern Japanese islands near Taiwan. Although it is often considered a dialect of Japanese, Miyako is recognized as a separate language by UNESCO, with a status of “definitely endangered”. Some research has been done on this slowly disappearing language...
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Fall 2018
Japanese distal demonstrative are ‘that’ has long been examined mostly with regard to its spatial use and overt expression in discourse by using constructed sentences. With regard to spatial use, are is used to refer to something far from both the speaker and the addressee (Sakuma 1992 [1936],...
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Fall 2018
The two kinds of Japanese adjectives, i-adjectives and na-adjectives, along with nouns, employ different forms (-i, -na, and no) to modify a noun. Based on such patterns, along with other grammatical characteristics identified in constructed examples, boundaries between lexical categories have...
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Fall 2020
Japanese kedo has traditionally been described and taught using two clauses where the kedo clause forms a contrastive relationship with the following main clause (Geyer 2007a; Geyer 2007b, Hatasa et al 2010; Iwasaki 2013). However, studies have shown that kedo also appears in other grammatical...
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Fall 2020
This study investigated the current state of Ikema—a dialect of Miyako Ryukyuan language spoken on Ikema Island and two other small communities in southern Japan—among speakers aged between late 40s and late 60s in the Ikema Island community, by focusing on their proficiency levels and their past...