Japanese Children’s Comprehension of Linguistic Register

Murase, Toshiki

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“…Another possibility could be the difference in languages in the two studies. For example, Murase (2012) also examined Japanese-speaking children’s understanding of registers by using nearly the same procedure as Wagner et al (2010) and reported that 5.5-year-olds’ (range = 4 y10 m–5 y 7 m) had limited understanding of register selection. Although the exact differences in languages that affect the understanding of registers remain unclear, it is possible that the explicit understanding of registers by Japanese-speaking children occur later in life compared to children learning other languages.…”

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Sensitivity to register selection errors amongst 5- and 7-year-old children.

Ikeda¹,

Kobayashi

Itakura

2019

Developmental Psychology

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We are expected to behave appropriately to suit social situations. One form of behavioral control is the selection of a linguistic register that is appropriate to the listener. Register selection errors can sometimes be interpreted as rude behavior and result in having a bad influence on the relationship with the listener and the evaluation by other people. Previous studies have demonstrated that children begin to show sensitivity to registers from about 2 years of age, and that 5- to 6-year-old children understand the appropriate relationships between a listener and a register. However, it remains unclear whether and when children understand the influence made by register selection errors on listeners, and how children evaluate speakers when they make errors in register selection. Therefore, we investigated the above issues in Japanese children, who are required to use registers strictly. Also, we conducted a control study with Japanese-speaking adults to identify adults’ evaluation of register selection errors. The results indicated that 7-year-old, but not 5-year-old children understood that the selection of an appropriate register gives listeners positive feelings. Moreover, 7-year-old children used register selection as an index of selective learning and social preference, although how they use others’ register use skills for evaluating them was slightly different from adults. These results suggest that although children notice the social meanings behind the use of registers by the age of 7, a more extended period of development is required to master the social meaning of register selection.

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Sensitivity to register selection errors amongst 5- and 7-year-old children.

Ikeda¹,

Kobayashi

Itakura

2019

Developmental Psychology

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“…Meanwhile, the study of register to understand more about culture can be found in Cahyani's (2020) research that examined registers in marriage cultural customs which aimed to preserve the language of that culture. Also, register studies in a particular community, can be found in Japan, such as register studies on children's language (Murase, 2012) or register studies on students, salarymen, and parents towards the use of language that shows gender identity (Sreetharan, 2004). Schubert (2016) in his research mentioned that the study of applied registers in the last few years is more commonly found in the study of English academic texts with less attention toward language comics and online commentary texts.…”

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Register Analysis on High School Students’ Language in Japanese Manga and Anime

Putri¹,

Haristiani²

2021

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2021)

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This study aimed to identify the use of registers in the language of high school students in Japan based on three elements of situation, namely: field; tenor; and mode. This descriptive qualitative study used daily conversations of high school students taken from the first 10 episodes of anime and manga titled Haikyuu season 1 as the research data. This study used Halliday's (1989) theory about register as a framework. The results showed that there were 35 data indicating registers. The use of registers which were influenced by the field factor showed the speaker's feelings and indicated the place while the use of registers against the interlocutors were found in tenor, such as in situations of apologizing, thanking, or calling the other person. Later, registers that depended on the way of which the speakers speak were found in mode. These findings demonstrated that the use of registers in the community of high school students in Japan were strongly influenced by who they were talking to. However, the use of registers was not limited to members of the community.

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Sensitivity to linguistic register in 20-month-olds: Understanding the register-listener relationship and its abstract rules

Ikeda¹,

Kobayashi²,

Itakura³

2018

PLoS ONE

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Linguistic register reflects changes in speech that depend on the situation, especially the status of listeners and listener-speaker relationships. Following the sociolinguistic rules of register is essential in establishing and maintaining social interactions. Recent research suggests that children over 3 years of age can understand appropriate register-listener relationships as well as the fact that people change register depending on their listeners. However, given previous findings that infants under 2 years of age have already formed both social and speech categories, it may be possible that even younger children can also understand appropriate register-listener relationships. The present study used Infant-Directed Speech (IDS) and formal Adult-Directed Speech (ADS) to examine whether 20-month-old toddlers can understand register-listener relationships. In Experiment 1, we used a violation-of-expectation method to examine whether 20-month-olds understand the individual associations between linguistic registers and listeners. Results showed that the toddlers looked significantly longer at a scene in which the adult was talked to in IDS than when the infant was talked to in IDS. In contrast, there was no difference when the adult and the infant were talked to in formal ADS. In Experiments 2 and 3, we used a habituation switch paradigm to examine whether 20-month-olds understand the abstract rule that a change of register depends on listeners rather than on speakers. Results showed that the toddlers looked significantly longer at the scene where the register rule was violated. The present findings provide new evidence that even 20-month-olds already understand that people change their way of speaking based on listeners, although their understanding of individual register-listener relationships is immature.

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Japanese Children’s Comprehension of Linguistic Register

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Sensitivity to register selection errors amongst 5- and 7-year-old children.

Sensitivity to register selection errors amongst 5- and 7-year-old children.

Register Analysis on High School Students’ Language in Japanese Manga and Anime

Sensitivity to linguistic register in 20-month-olds: Understanding the register-listener relationship and its abstract rules

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