Anonymous review

Explains respect language, ingroup/outgroup distinctions, status. The appropriate level for various occasions, respect words and how to construct respect forms.

Review by Charles Eicher

This book is primarily written in English, and is a quite excellent explanation of all aspects of politeness besides just keigo. For example, donatory verbs (giving and receiving) as well as personal pronouns are explained. This book has extensive lists of example sentences, restated in ascending levels of politeness. This is an extremely valuable method of presenting keigo. Also addresses (to a small degree) male vs. female speech patterns. My biggest reservation about this book is that it contains no kanji, all examples are in romaji.