Description of (un)politeness in the use of personal pronouns in Japanese grammars written by foreigners in the 19th century: a historiographical approach

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https://doi.org/10.21165/el.v47i1.2024

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(un)politeness, Japanese language, personal pronouns

Abstract

Based on the methodology of analysis of the Linguistic Historiography proposed by Koerner (1989) and Swiggers (2005[2004]), the objective of this work is to analyze the treatment of the personal pronouns of 1st person in the main Japanese Language grammars written by foreigners in the nineteenth century, and also investigate how the (un)politeness was approached. Along with the analysis of the social context, we present the linguistic changes corresponding to the personal pronouns and continuity and discontinuity movements observed in relation to “techniques of analysis and data presentation methods” (SWIGGERS, 2005[2004]) used in the primary sources under study.

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Olivia Yumi Nakaema, Universidade de São Paulo

Doutoranda em Historiografia Linguística pelo Programa de Semiótica e Linguística Geral da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo com bolsa CAPES, mestre pelo Programa de Língua, Literatura e Cultura Japonesa da Universidade de São Paulo, mestre (M. A.) em Literatura Japonesa pela Universidade de Osaka e bacharel em Letras Português-Japonês e Direito pela Universidade de São Paulo. 

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Published

2018-10-17

How to Cite

Nakaema, O. Y. (2018). Description of (un)politeness in the use of personal pronouns in Japanese grammars written by foreigners in the 19th century: a historiographical approach. Estudos Linguísticos (São Paulo. 1978), 47(1), 70–86. https://doi.org/10.21165/el.v47i1.2024

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Historiografia Linguística