Takao Suzuki (鈴木 孝夫, Suzuki Takao; Tokyo, 9 November 1926 – 10 February 2021) was a Japanese sociolinguist, He was the author of ことばと文化, translated into English as Words in Context. Suzuki argued 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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