Gör som jag säger! : en sociolingvistisk undersökning av japanskans imperativ
Even though Japanese possesses several means of constructing imperatives, such as inflections and different suffixes, it is often through the use of circumlocutions that requests are made. This paper takes a look at the common imperative constructions in Japanese, analyses their usage, and then aims to investigate which of these constructions are actually found in colloquial speech by means of an