Abstract
It is in the last twenty years or so that people in Japan have come to live in multi-story apartment houses. The speech of the residents of such apartments is richer in variety than that of people who live in single-family houses. Apartment dwellers have more detailed distinctions in the use of honorifics, which represent fine distinctions in human relationship expressed in Japanese. Such speech varieties correlate well with the degree of intensity of interaction with neighbors: the more intense their interaction, the lower the level of linguistic forms: conversely, the less intense their interaction, the higher the speech level. These finding are the results of interviews conducted with 252 informants in the city of Sapporo, located in the north of the Japan Archipelago, which is an area now going through radical urbanization.
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