Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- To the instructors
- Part I Preliminaries
- 1 Beyond the sentence: discourse and bunshoo
- 2 Rhetoric and culture
- 3 Written, spoken, and in-between
- 4 Style distinction: da, desu/masu, and dearu
- Part II Principles
- Part III Selected readings
- Part IV Appendices
- References
- Index
4 - Style distinction: da, desu/masu, and dearu
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 February 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- To the instructors
- Part I Preliminaries
- 1 Beyond the sentence: discourse and bunshoo
- 2 Rhetoric and culture
- 3 Written, spoken, and in-between
- 4 Style distinction: da, desu/masu, and dearu
- Part II Principles
- Part III Selected readings
- Part IV Appendices
- References
- Index
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- Chapter
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- Principles of Japanese DiscourseA Handbook, pp. 17 - 20Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998