Manifestations of Gender Distinction in the Japanese Language
Present day Japanese has evolved very differently from European languages. One relatively unique aspect of Japanese is the diversity of its gender specific constructs and their usage. In the current state of Japanese and its many dialects, speaker gender plays an important role in word choice, sentence structure, tone of voice and more generally the ways in which a person can present him/herself with the … [ Read more ]
Source: “Alexander Schonfeld” | Subject: Articles