Linguistic Variation and Friendship Networks: A Study in the Japanese Language’  

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Ito, Takashi

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 11 no. 2 (1989), page 177-195.
Fulltext: 11_02_Ito.pdf (1.07MB)

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This paper is a report on a sociohnguistic survey conducted in Tokyo, Japan. The purpose of this study is to explore the social factors which relate to the use of nonstandard expressions among younger people. The data were processed mainly with multiple regression analysis and the following results were obtained: (1) males tend to use more non-standard forms than females; (2) T.V. exposure affects speakers to use non-standard forms, implying that the present-day mass media do not have so’much influence over the standardization, at least among younger people; and (3) the influence of friendship networks operates only on non-standard forms and not on standards, suggesting their different distributional patterns within groups; that is, standards are distributed in a random manner, while non-standards are focalized into smaller sectors (sociolinguistic variation, friendship networks, younger speakers, statistical analysis, Japanese).

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