Dissertation Research: Honorifics as an Aspect of Japanese Speech Styles

日本长期以来一直以其复杂的系统而闻名。 表示对某人尊敬的敬语词缀 或者是在谈论谁 研究人员将 研究如何尊重使用不同的反应， 敬语使用的情景特征和是否变异 与其他文体标记的变化相关。 对西方语言的传统分析通常 把风格看作是沿着单一风格沿着变化的 形式的维度。 据推测，Co- 出现规则的存在，使得言语是正式的， 一维（例如，词序）将在另一个 (e.g.,字的选择）。 虽然日语的敬语显然 与形式有关，本研究员假设， 敬语与其他正式用语无关。 因此，有可能日本人同时表现出 一个文体标记的尊重，同时表现出亲密 和另一个 这一点很重要，它表明， 不是一个单一的维度，而是涉及几个维度， 分析不同的特征，影响不同的 语言系统的层次。

Japanese has long been known for its elaborate system of honorific affixes which show respect for the person to whom or about whom one is speaking. The researcher will investigate how honorific use varies in response to situational features and whether variation in honorific use correlates with variation in other stylistic markers. Conventional analyses of Western languages have generally treated style as involving variation along a single dimension of formality. It has been assumed that co- occurrence rules exist such that speech which is formal in one dimension (e.g., word order) will be formal in another (e.g., word choice). While Japanese honorifics are clearly related to formality, this investigator hypothesizes that honorifics are unrelated to other markers of formality. Therefore, it is possible that Japanese simultaneously show respect with one stylistic marker while showing intimacy with another. This importantly suggests that formality is not a single dimension, but rather involves several analytically distinct features which influence different levels of the linguistic system.