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Title Virtual Japanese : Enigmas of Role Language Author(s) Kinsui, Satoshi Citation Issue Date 2017-11 Text Version publisher URL http://hdl.handle.net/11094/67215 DOI rights Copyright © Satoshi Kinsui, 2003 Note Osaka University Knowledge Archive : OUKA https://ir.library.osaka-u.ac.jp/ Osaka University Osaka University West Front, 2-7 Yamadaoka, Suita-shi, Osaka, Japan 565-0871 Published in Japan by Osaka University Press First published 2017 Virtual Japanese: Enigmas of Role Language by Satoshi Kinsui Copyright © Satoshi Kinsui, 2003 Original Japanese edition published by Iwanami Shoten, Publishers, Tokyo English translation copyright © Osaka University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be translated, reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. ISBN 978-4-87259-548-2 iii Acknowledgements This book is an English translation of Iwanami Shoten’s Vācharu Nihongo: Yakuwarigo no Nazo (Virtual Japanese: Enigmas of Role Language), published in January 2003. As of January 2016, the Japanese version has had 14 printruns and has sold approximately 14,000 copies. Role language is a concept that was created by the author and was used for the first time in Kinsui, Satoshi (2000) “Yakuwarigo tankyū no teian” (A proposal of the research of role language) (Satō, Kiyoji (ed.) Kokugoshi no Shin-shiten (A New Perspective on the History of Japanese), Kokugo Ronkyū 8, pp. 331–351, Meiji Shoin). This concept came to be widely known within and outside of academia after the original 2003 publication.
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