Takao Suzuki (sociolinguist)

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Name Takao Suzuki		Role Author

Books Words in context, Japanese and the Japanese People also search for Susumu Ono, Tetsuro Morimoto, C. W. Nicol

Takao Suzuki (鈴木孝夫, Suzuki Takao, born 1926) is a Japanese sociolinguist, He is the author of ことばと文化, translated into English as Words in Context.

Suzuki argues that:

Sociolinguists do not pay enough attention to the subtle differences between word usage in different cultures.

Japanese linguists have traditionally been too occupied with Western linguistic categories, which are less than effective in studying Japanese.

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