Vicarious language : gender and linguistic modernity in Japan /
Inoue, Miyako, 1962-
Vicarious language : gender and linguistic modernity in Japan / Miyako Inoue. - Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2006. - 1 online resource (xvii, 323 pages) : illustrations. - Asia--local studies/global themes ; 11 . - Asia--local studies/global themes ; 11. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-308) and index.
An echo of national modernity: overhearing "schoolgirl speech" -- Linguistic modernity and the emergence of women's language -- From schoolgirl speech to women's language: consuming indexicality in the Women's magazines, 1890-1930 -- Capitalist modernity, the responsibilized speaking body, and the public mourning of the death of women's language -- "Just stay in the middle": the story of a woman manager -- Defamiliarizing Japanese women's language: strategies and tactics of female office workers.
This highly original study provides an entirely new critical perspective on the central importance of ideas about language in the reproduction of gender, class, and race divisions in modern Japan. Focusing on a phenomenon commonly called "women's language," in modern Japanese society, Miyako Inoue considers the history and social effects of this language form. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a contemporary Tokyo corporation to study the everyday linguistic experience of white-collar females office workers and on historical research from the late nineteenth century to 1930, she calls into.
English.
9780520939066 (electronic bk.) 0520939069 (electronic bk.) 1282771965 9781282771963 9786612771965 6612771968
22573/cttt42sv JSTOR
GBA627525 bnb
013414768 Uk
Women--Language.--Japan
Japanese language--Sex differences.
Femmes--Langage.--Japon
Japonais (Langue)--Différences entre sexes.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Linguistics--Sociolinguistics.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Semiotics & Theory.
Japanese language--Sex differences.
Women--Language.
Feminismus
Linguistik
Japan.
Japanisch.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PL698.W65 / I56 2006eb
306.44/082/0952
Vicarious language : gender and linguistic modernity in Japan / Miyako Inoue. - Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2006. - 1 online resource (xvii, 323 pages) : illustrations. - Asia--local studies/global themes ; 11 . - Asia--local studies/global themes ; 11. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-308) and index.
An echo of national modernity: overhearing "schoolgirl speech" -- Linguistic modernity and the emergence of women's language -- From schoolgirl speech to women's language: consuming indexicality in the Women's magazines, 1890-1930 -- Capitalist modernity, the responsibilized speaking body, and the public mourning of the death of women's language -- "Just stay in the middle": the story of a woman manager -- Defamiliarizing Japanese women's language: strategies and tactics of female office workers.
This highly original study provides an entirely new critical perspective on the central importance of ideas about language in the reproduction of gender, class, and race divisions in modern Japan. Focusing on a phenomenon commonly called "women's language," in modern Japanese society, Miyako Inoue considers the history and social effects of this language form. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a contemporary Tokyo corporation to study the everyday linguistic experience of white-collar females office workers and on historical research from the late nineteenth century to 1930, she calls into.
English.
9780520939066 (electronic bk.) 0520939069 (electronic bk.) 1282771965 9781282771963 9786612771965 6612771968
22573/cttt42sv JSTOR
GBA627525 bnb
013414768 Uk
Women--Language.--Japan
Japanese language--Sex differences.
Femmes--Langage.--Japon
Japonais (Langue)--Différences entre sexes.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Linguistics--Sociolinguistics.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Semiotics & Theory.
Japanese language--Sex differences.
Women--Language.
Feminismus
Linguistik
Japan.
Japanisch.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
PL698.W65 / I56 2006eb
306.44/082/0952