The Mysterious Address Term anata 'you' in Japanese
Yoko Yonezawa
The use of the second person singular pronoun anata ‘you’ in modern Japanese has long been regarded as mysterious and problematic, generating contradictory nuances such as polite, impolite, intimate, and distancing. Treated as a troublesome pronoun, scholars have searched for a semantically loaded… read more[Topics in Address Research, 4] 2021. xv, 208 pp.
