Ideologies of honorific language

Irvine, Judith T.

doi:10.1075/prag.2.3.02irv

Article published In: Language ideologies
Edited by Bambi B. Schieffelin, Paul V. Kroskrity and Kathryn A. Woolard
[Pragmatics 2:3] 1992
► pp. 251–262

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Ideologies of honorific language

Judith T. Irvine

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