GENDER DIFFERENCES IN BUSINESS JAPANESE
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Abstract
For all nations, language is a main tool of self identification. Speaking habits always define the person’s place in society, his / her culture and even origin. It refers to the gender speech identification too, which will be discussed in this article. Today historically formed gender speech differences of modern and official Japanese language have a tendency to slowly disappear. The base for such changes is partial Europeanization of the Japanese society despite the strength and immutability of its traditional culture. In the course of its development society has to accept a new speech culture. Official speech of working women and feminized male speech are no longer new phenomena, not only for Japan, but also worldwide. The article reviews the gender speech differences of both modern and official Japanese language styles. The study covers different age and social groups: from subcultures to the speech of working males and females. The goal is to identify the tendencies and define ways of how to account for gender speech varieties in teaching Japanese.
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Gender Differences, Japanese
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