Using Honorific Names of Indonesian-Japanese Business E-mails

DOI

10.2991/soshec-18.2018.27How to use a DOI?

Keywords

honorific; Japanese e-mails, Indonesian e-mails; Mas

Abstract

The ability of Japanese language graduates to write Japanese and Indonesian emails is a necessity. The indication is that many graduates are not able to adapt to the real world of work, especially on email writing. The purpose of this study is to describe the "honorific name" in business e-mails in Indonesian and Japanese. This study used qualitative method with each using 300 emails Japanese and Indonesian. The result of this study reveals that the writing ability of honorific name both email Japanese and Indonesian were low. Honorific name seen in the "title" of Indonesian e-mail was divided into 9 categories and 7 categories in Japanese e-mail. The characteristic of changing greeting expressions by the partner was visible to the Indonesian e-mails. Even for close-minded people, they use “Mas (name)". Such a phenomenon could not be seen in Japanese e-mails. Thus, Japanese language learners need to understand the procedure of writing emails, both in Indonesian and Japanese.

Copyright

© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Amri Miftachul
PY  - 2018/07
DA  - 2018/07
TI  - Using Honorific Names of Indonesian-Japanese Business E-mails
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Social Sciences, Humanities and Education Conference: Establishing Identities through Language, Culture, and Education (SOSHEC 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 124
EP  - 126
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/soshec-18.2018.27
DO  - 10.2991/soshec-18.2018.27
ID  - Miftachul2018/07
ER  -