语言是民族的语言,世界上几乎没一个民族都有自己的语言,因而民族的特性也肯定能够在语言上得以体现。美国学者鲁斯本尼迪克特在《菊与刀》中从多角度对日本民族的矛盾性、多重性进行了分析,作为民族特性体现的日语必然也有其多重性。本文从日语词汇、口语书面语以及称谓词三个角度就日语多重性进行分析。 Language is the language of a nation. Almost no nation in the world has its own language, so the characteristics of a nation can certainly be manifested in language. The American scholar Ruth Benedikt analyzed the contradictions and multiplicity of the Japanese nation from various perspectives in Chrysanthemum and the Knife. Japanese, as a national characteristic, must have its own multiplicity. This article analyzes Japanese multiplicity from three aspects: Japanese vocabulary, oral written language and appellation.