Metroethnicity, naming and mocknolect : new horizons in Japanese sociolinguistics / John C. Maher.

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Maher, John C, 1951- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Impact, studies in language and society ; 49.Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 239 pages) : color illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9027260028
9789027260024

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Metroethnicity, naming and mocknolectDDC classification:

306.442/956 23

LOC classification:

P40.45.J3 M34 2021

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Summary: "Language is a social space, an aesthetic, a form of play and communication, a geographical reference, a jouissance, a producer of numerous social and personal identities. This book takes up salient issues of sociolinguistics with a specific focus on Japan: language and gender (the married name controversy), language and the 'portable' identities being fashioned around traditional, essentialist notions of ethnicity (metroethnicity) endangerment, slang, taboo and discriminatory language in Japanese especially regarding minorities, place-names from indigenous languages, the fellowship and parody of children's songs, and the diversity of nicknames among children and young people. This books gives radical and new perspectives on the sociolinguistics of Japanese"-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Language is a social space, an aesthetic, a form of play and communication, a geographical reference, a jouissance, a producer of numerous social and personal identities. This book takes up salient issues of sociolinguistics with a specific focus on Japan: language and gender (the married name controversy), language and the 'portable' identities being fashioned around traditional, essentialist notions of ethnicity (metroethnicity) endangerment, slang, taboo and discriminatory language in Japanese especially regarding minorities, place-names from indigenous languages, the fellowship and parody of children's songs, and the diversity of nicknames among children and young people. This books gives radical and new perspectives on the sociolinguistics of Japanese"-- Provided by publisher.

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