Mai Homu Shugi: Discursively Expressing and Shaping the Nuclear Tokyo Family
Abstract: Though the Japanese language has the syntactic ability to express ownership in a noun phrase by utilizing the possessive particle, at a sociolinguistic level, expressing first-person possession includes a high risk of linguistically demonstrating a lack of humility on the part of the speaker. By the direct importation of the English-language possessive phrase “my [...]