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The Pattern of Unique Use of Language: A Case Study in the Greeting Messages ‘Konnichiwa’ and ‘Konbanwa’ on Japanese Mobile Phone E-mail

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  • Noboru Sakai

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This study considers the mechanism underlying how people use unique patterns of language use as a greeting message, using Konnichiwa( - good afternoon), and Konbanwa ( - good evening), a simple and common message appearing in Japanese mobile phone e-mail (Keitai-mail), as an example. The data corpus analyzed for this study consists of 43,295 mails for communication purposes from 60 Japanese young people. The result shows that people apply uniqueness in a limited way, and moreover their unique use of language is largely affected by the standard rules of Japanese, including sound information such that as  (ha) is pronounced /wa/ (wa).

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  • Noboru Sakai, 2018. "The Pattern of Unique Use of Language: A Case Study in the Greeting Messages ‘Konnichiwa’ and ‘Konbanwa’ on Japanese Mobile Phone E-mail," Asian Culture and History, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 10(2), pages 1-19, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:ach123:v:10:y:2018:i:2:p:19
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