The linguistic ideologies of modern Japanese honorifics and the historic reality of modernity

Abstract

This paper analyzes honorifics and deference entitlement in Modern Japanese along with the modern Japanese and Euro-American pragmatic theories thereof, as ideologically mediated social phenomena, in the critical–theoretical framework where they are contextualized to their socio-historic surrounds, inter alia to the modern socio-economic conditions giving rise to, but hidden behind, the modern pragmatic theories and the honorific phenomena analyzed by them.