Ideologies of honorific language

Myth, language, and complex ideologies

Ideologies use for their conservation and propagation persuasive methods of communication: Rhetoric. Rhetoric is analyzed from the semiotic and logical-mathematical points of view. The following hypotheses are established: 1) Language L is a self-explanatory system, mediated by a successive series of systems of cultural conventions. 2) Connotative significances of an ideological advertising rhe...

Public and private language ideologies as reflected in language attitudes on the Island of Korcula.

Since languages are such powerful means of group identification, they may be considered as constitutive of communities. Attitudes expressed toward certain linguistic varieties may thus be perceived as attitudes held toward respective community-members. However, as attitudes are not always easily accessible, and are rarely one-dimensional but rather multi-layered, an insight into overt (publicly...

JOHN B . HAVILAND Ideologies of Language : Some Reflections on Language and U . S . Law

I present two U.S. court cases in which I participated as a linguistic anthropological "expert" to show how language ideologies of the law both influence legal outcomes and conflict with "scientific" ideas about language. One case was the murder trial of a young Mixtec-speaking Indian from Oaxaca; the other was a civil suit brought by four Hispanic women dismissed from an elder-care center for ...

Honorific marking: Interpreted and Interpretable

Japanese, Korean, and Thai provide yet more extensive and articulated honorification paradigms, with a range of special formal, familiar, and derogatory pronominal forms, as well as verb forms and others. This extra dimension in the pronominal system separates these languages from, e.g., English and Arabic, where the pronominal paradigms make no such distinction. But it is evident that, in natu...

The Impact of Primary Schools on the Differential Distribution of Samoan Adolescents' Competence with Honorific Language